Description

LOWER ROAD
1.
5393
(North Side)
Grayswood
Grayswood House
SU 93 SW 10/13
II
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Early C19 house with added Victorian range. Main garden front of 2 storeys, 5
windows. Red brick with stone-coped parapet. Gauged flat brick arches to recessed
sash windows with glazing bars. Possibly later projecting one-storey porch has
stone cornice and parapet; and impost string from round-arched opening with patterned
fanlight and later door. On right return a one-storey round bow. Parallel rear
range circa 1860, 2 storeys, 3 wide bays with an attic window under central gable.
Red brick with blue headers, diagonal brick cornice, steep tiled roof. Sash windows,
glazing bars above, margin lights below; and one long casement. Small right extension of
malmstone rubble. Grayswood House was the home of Mrs Humphrey Ward the novelist.

Listing NGR: SU9190634585

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26536812

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)