Description

SU 73 NW FARRINGDON GOSPORT ROAD (Lower Farringdon) 2/29

Farringdon Hurst GV II House. C18, early and mid C19. The wall is stuccoed, with a parapet (coping and band), 1st floor band, and a high plinth. Plain tiled roof (double-pile) to the old part, slate to the rear. A house of 3 phases, the earliest showing inside, and the exterior having early and later Tudor/Gothic features, and vernacular rear extensions. East front: 2 storeys; 3 windows. The central window (above the entrance) is an early Gothic oriel, with castellated parapet and pointed lights; at each side is a 2-storeyed splayed bay of later mid C19) Gothic style, of similar but bolder treatment. The C18 doorway, above 2 stone steps, has an oval arch with lead radiating fanlight, panelled reveals, and a (C20) ½-glazed door; this is within an early C19 open porch of exaggerated slenderness in Doric dentil order, with an open pediment and reeded columns. Interior: C18 staircase and panelled doors in architraves, with Regency doors to one room and bookshelves within oval-arched recesses in another.

Listing NGR: SU7046835336

External Links

• Wikidata Q26623306

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (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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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)