Description

SK 77 NW GAMSTON GREAT NORTH ROAD (west side)

3/46 Gamston Manor and attached cottage 28.2.52

II

House and attached cottage. C17 with late C18 additions and alterations and C20 additions. Red brick, some ashlar. Slate roof. Right part external gable and single ridge stacks, with a further single stack to the gable of the left cross wing. 2 storeys plus garret, 6 bays, the left bay being gabled. Original C17 3 bay house now heightened with remaining band of dogtooth marking original roof line. The 2 right ground floor bays are ashlar. To the right are 2 late C18 bays and to the left the single gabled bay of the late C18 cross wing. Having from left to right a single glazing bar casement under segmental arch, doorway with panelled door, 3 pane overlight and pedimented Doric porch, 2 large glazing bar casements with central carved ashlar human head corbel, a single pair of glazing bar sashes under segmental arch and a single similar sash under segmental arch. Above are 3 glazing bar sashes in the C17 wing, to the right is a single glazing bar sash under cambered arch and further right an oriel window with a pair of glazing bar casements to the front and single similar casements to the sides. In the garret of the cross wing is a single glazing bar casement. To the right, set back, is a brick and slate lean-to with 2 openings under segmental arches. Attached to the rear of the C18 bays is a C18 cottage with altered openings. The 4 bay south front of the cross wing with single ridge stack and dogtooth, raised brick and dentil eaves bands has 4 French windows under segmental arches with 4 glazing bar sashes under segmental arches above. There is a single roof dormer with single tripartite glazing bar casement. To the left and rear are C20 additions. Interior of C17 bays has a single studded panel on the first floor. Roof with arch braced collar truss.

Listing NGR: SK7094176233

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)