Description

SK49NE SWINTON FITZWILLIAM STREET (west side)

6/31 No 20 (Swinton House club) 11.12.53 GV II

House now club. Early-mid C18 with C19 additions to rear. Coursed, dressed sandstone, Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys; 5-bay front with triple wing to rear which projects beyond left return. Entered from right return. Large projecting quoins, plinth. Most of lower wall rendered with irregularly-ruled joints. Central doorway walled-up with surround removed below mid-height; architrave with tripartite keyblock, acanthus-carved consoles to broken segmental pediment. Flanking windows have unequal 15-pane sashes in squared-faced surrounds with moulded sills; ventilator inserted in upper part of bay-1 window. Band. Sashes with glazing bars to 1st floor, surrounds as ground floor; central window emphasised by decorative apron panel, sill blocks, shouldered and eared architrave and cornice (now cemented over). Moulded cornice forms gutter and breaks forward over central bay and at each end. Coped gables; renewed brick end stacks. Left return: attached wing has C19 garden front with curved single-storey bay window to right.

Listing NGR: SK4532098978

External Links

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)