Description

WOOBURN CORES END ROAD SU 98 NW 6/169 Cores End House and Cores End Cottage (formerly listed as Cores End House) 21.6.55 - II* House. Circa 1730 with rear wing of c.1800. Front range is of red and vitreous brick, irregularly chequered, with old tile roof, half-hipped to left. Brick chimneys with c.1800 cogged caps to right and rear. Double pile, 2 storeys and attic, 5 bays. Gauged first floor band with central dentil course, wooden eaves cornice with shaped modillions. Boxed 3-pane sashes, all renewed C20, with gauged brick heads and stone sills. Central first floor window is blind and painted. 2 flat-roofed dormers with paired wooden casements and dentil cornices. Central 6-panelled door with 4-pane rectangular fanlight and wooden cornice hood on shaped scroll brackets. Rear has central hipped stair turret with re-sited original sash window. Rear wing is of brick with dentil eaves, hipped old tile roof and brick chimneys with cogged caps. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Right side has original paired leaded casements, those to ground floor with segmental heads and panelled shutters. Small C20 diamond-shaped window between right bays. Original 2-panelled door to left in wooden trellis porch. C20 flat- roofed extension projects to right. Interior: all front rooms have original panelling and boxed cornices; upper left room has fireplace with shouldered wooden architrave surround, pulvinated frieze and cornice; original staircase with column balusters, closed string, moulded handrail and square newels.

Listing NGR: SU9041987249

External Links

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