Description

ST 86 NW BOX LOWER KINGSDOWN ROAD

2/184 No 7 Kingsdown House

GV II

House, early C19 incorporating earlier building, painted ashlar front with stone tiled roof, coped gables and end wall stacks. Two storeys to front, 3 to rear. Four-window front range with moulded cornice and parapet. Three upper 12-pane sashes and one escape door, 2 ground floor 12-pane sashes, centre door and to open segmental arches to left. Rubble stonework with 3-light mullion window within arcade. Rubbled stone building to left with coped gable and end wall stack. One bead-moulded mullion window to rear of C18 type. Main range rear has small fragment of dripmoulding at ground floor ri-ght end: Rebuilt as part of the extensions to the private asylum at Kingsdown House recorded from the C18 but stated in 1815 as having been in existence for 200 years. (W.Parry Jones: The Trade in Lunacy 1972.)

Listing NGR: ST8174367782

External Links

• Wikidata Q26476917

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)