Description

SJ 97 SW SUTTON C.P. (Off) LONDON ROAD

2/70 Lyme Green Hall

- - II

Small country house. c.1912 with later additions and alterations of 1930's. Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and slate roof with lead flashings. Two storeys with attic. Entrance front: Three bays symmetrically disposed. Central later porch with moulded doorcase and moulded lugged surround having triple keystone which projects upwards through broken open pediment. Pilaster strips to sides and cyma-moulded coping. Above this and to both floors at right and left are sash windows of 3 x 4 panes with wedge lintels carved in simulation of voussoir blocks with chamfered rustication and raised keystones. Ashlar sills to all these windows and all others on the house. Two dormer attic windows of 2 casement lights with flat leaded roofs. Two-bay addition at right with chamfered quoins and staircase sash windws of 3 x 7 panes starting at mezzanine level and extending through first floor. Voussoir blocks of ascending height with central chamfered keystones (a pattern common to all windows of the later building unless otherwise indicated). Further projection to right of this of 2 bays with chamfered quoins, moulded cornice and sash windows of 3 x 5 panes to ground floor and 3 x 4 panes to first floor. Garden front (all of later building): 9 bays. Projecting ashlar plinth. Chamfered quoins to corners and moulded cornice. Central 3-bay recessed portion with canted bay to ground floor with central sash window of 4 x 5 panes and windows to angles of 2 x 5 panes. Wrought iron balcony railing above bay with window of 3 x 4 sash panes. Two-light dormer to attic. Angled bays to either side in re-entrant angles. These have doorways to ground floor with moulded surrounds including triple keystones, the central of which are very prominent. Segmental relieving arches over. Doorway at left is a recent replacement. That at right French windows each leaf of 2 x 5 panes. Balconies above with wrought iron railings and stone platforms with similar French windows. Projecting 3-bay wings to either side, that at left having gound floor sash window of 3 x 5 panes and 2-bay projection to right with low sash windows of 3 x 6 panes with pilaster strips at sides.

Listing NGR: SJ9166070715

External Links

• Wikidata Q26432316

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014