Description

LYDIATE PYGON'S HILL LANE SD 30 SE (west side) 7/90 Rose Hill II House. C18 with mid C19 facade. Brick with stucco and pebble-dash facade, slate roof. 2 storeys, 7 bays, the 1st 2 bays recessed, the last 5 bays form symmetrical composition. Ground floor with chanelled rustication, 1st floor sill band and quoins. Ground floor has canted bay windows with hipped slate roofs. 1st floor windows have shouldered and eared architraves, friezes and cornices; the central window has consoled segmental pediment. Windows have sashes, no glazing bars. Central porch has round- arched entrance with flanking flat pilasters, frieze, cornice and hipped roof. 1st 2 bays have canopied entrance, 4 gable-end stacks and one in roof pitch. Rear has some windows with glazing bars. House is important for its associations with the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, who visited the house to say Mass in the private chapel. Here he wrote the poem"Spring and Fall" and corresponded with fellow poet Robert Bridges.

Listing NGR: SD3762504502

External Links

• Wikidata Q26627126

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