Description

NEWBURGH

SD4810 ASH BROW 663-1/6/89 (South side) 11/08/72 Derby House

GV II

Farmhouse, subsequently inn, now house. Late C17 or very early C18, enlarged in C18; altered. White-painted scored stucco on sandstone rubble, stone slate roof. Asymmetric U-plan formed by 2-unit main range with 2-unit cross-wing to left and long rear wing to right. Two storeys, 1:2 windows, the first bay gabled. The doorway into the main range, close to the junction with the wing, is square-headed with plain stone jambs and lintel set within a round-headed moulded surround; the windows are large and square with raised raked sills and contain 3-light casements with 2-light overlights. Ridge chimney to main range and another to the wing. The left return of the wing has one 3-light casement at ground floor and 2 above; the rear of this wing (which is not rendered) has a staircase outshut overlapping the main range; and the other wing has (inter alia) at 1st floor a sliding sash window of 3+2 lights. INTERIOR: large broad-chamfered beam in 3rd bay (under-drawn ceiling in 2nd bay may conceal similar beam); dog-legged staircase of late C17 type, with closed string, rectangular newel, turned balusters and moulded handrail. Forms group with Spring Cottage to the left (q.v.) and with Rosehill Cottage adjoining to the right (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD4844010245

External Links

• Wikidata Q26491135

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)