Description

BAINBRIDGE A 684
SD 99 SE
(north side)
Worton
9/54 Summer Tree House and
attached outbuilding
25.3.69
GV II
House and attached outbuilding. House dated 1729. For Michael Smith.
House: coursed rubble; outbuilding: rubble; stone slate roofs. 2 storeys.
House: 3 first-floor windows, rear out-shut. Quoins. Central 4-panel door
in ashlar quoined surround with ogee moulding on the chamfer, lintel with
triangular soffit and decorative motifs on spandrels, and inscription
"M:S.1729" with decorative motifs. Above lintel, square plaque with scar
where something has been removed. 3-light chamfered windows with
architraves and flat-faced mullions, except over door where there is a
single-light window. Corniced end stacks. Outbuilding to right: board
doors on ground and first floors, with stone steps up to first floor. Left
return of house: 2 single-light windows in architraves: that on ground floor
with stone panel crudely inscribed "MICHAEL SMITH MECHANICK BUT HE THAT
BUILT ALL THINGS IS GOD Heb.3"; that on first floor with keystone.

Listing NGR: SD9550790015

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26424966

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Recommended Books

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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990