Description

EASTHAM CP - SO 66 NE

5/41 Robin's End

18.4.66

GV II*

Shown on OS Map as Rectory. Rectory, now house. c1735, on site of C17 building, with late C19 and c1930 additions. Brick, plain tiled roof with parapets and brick stacks at gable ends. Two storeys, attic with dormers and cellar; chamfered plinth, three-course band between storeys and moulded eaves cornice to the front and a dentilled eaves cornice at the rear. Five bays; windows on main floors have gauged flat heads and are all 12-pane sashes; two C20 hipped dormers with 2-light leaded casements; central bay has a two-storey gabled porch wing with pediment, first floor 12-pane sash window and main entrance beneath with moulded architrave, part-glazed door and transom light. Interior: noted as having its original open-well staircase with moulded handrail and slender balusters of alternating turned, spiral and fluted design. Also said that the late Georgian wallpaper survives in one ground floor room. Two wings both of similar scale are built onto the gable ends; the late C19 east wing is of two storeys and attic, has a gable end parapet and external chimney; its front elevation has a ground floor 6-light casement and a first floor tripartite window with cambered head and central 12-pane sash; the arrangement of its rear elevation of two ground and first floor 12-pane sashes with cambered head is repeated on both elevations of the c1930 addition at the west gable end. Adjoining the C19 addition is a C17 single-bay timber-framed wing which survives from the previous building on the site. (VCH 4, p 265).

Listing NGR: SO6604368165

External Links

• Wikidata Q17547614

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