Description

SP 82 NW MURLSEY SALDEN

4/88 Salden House Farmhouse

4.6.52

- II*

House, the remains of a large house built late C16 for Sir John Fortescue, and mostly demolished 1738-43. Red brick with diaper patterning in blue headers and flanking brick pilasters. Stone mouldings to top of plinth and eaves. Some stone window dressings. Old tile roof, brick chimneys to gables and between right-hand bays.2 storeys and attic, 3 main bays. Ground floor has 3-light leaded casements, 2 to left in segmental brick heads, window to right in altered moulded stone surround. First floor has original 3-light windows with moulded stone mullions and transoms and leaded lights. Left window has 3-light barred wooden casement in stone surround. 3 hipped dormers with paired leaded casements. C20 panelled door between left-hand bays has 3-light leaded fanlight with segmental head. Additional small bay to right has 4-centred brick arch, now blocked but with 3-light moulded stone window and ledged board door. C20 3-light leaded casement to first floor. C20 double garage extension to right. Rear is similar with moulded stone window surrounds to first floor and C19-20 extensions and conservatory. Interior has some C17 panelling. RCHM II p 205-6 MON 22

Listing NGR: SP8245629767

External Links

• Wikidata Q17536055

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)