Description

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ST5872NW PIPE LANE 901-1/15/185 (South West side) 04/03/77 Nos.5 AND 6 (Formerly Listed as: PIPE LANE Nos.5-8 (Consecutive))

GV II

Pair of attached houses, now offices. c1710, restored 1992. Render with limestone dressings, brick party wall stacks and a pantile double-pile roof. Early Georgian style. Each of 3 storeys; 2-window range. A symmetrical pair with moulded strips to the ground and first floor, a coved cornice to moulded eaves; outer doorways have moulded flat timber canopies with panelled soffits and narrow brackets, overlights and 6-panel doors with raised panels. 9/9-pane sashes with thick bars, narrow bar to the second-floor left-hand horned sash, basement hatches; No.6 has an early C19 shop front with a left-hand door and 8-pane window beneath the cornice. 2 hipped dormers. INTERIOR not inspected. A notable example retaining original glazing to flush sashes, and coved cornice. The contemporary and more advanced terraces in Orchard Street had covenants excluding the use of flush frames and wood cornices, following the 1707 London Act.

Listing NGR: ST5848472980

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)