Description

SAMPFORD COURTENAY STICKLEPATH
SX 69 SW
12/215 Cleave House
II
House. Circa 1835-40. Rendered probably stone rubble walls. Asbestos slate hipped
roof with deep eaves. The eaves have a fretted timber canopy with alternating ogee
arches and pendants, and a cast iron ogee-moulded gutter with lion masks to the
joints. Red brick stacks over the side walls with white clay pots. Plan: double
depth rectangular plan. 2 principal front rooms with an entrance hall between which
has an open-well staircase at the back. there are 2 smaller heated service rooms
at the back. Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-window front. All original C19
windows. Three 12-pane sashes on the first floor with margin panes and 2 tall case-
ments on the ground floor also with margin panes and low cills. Central doorway
with original C19 moulded 8-panel door, the top panels glazed and a cornice above
on large console brackets. The side elevations are blind. The rear elevation is
thought to have its original fenestration. Interior: is virtually unaltered and
the original joinery such as panelled doors survives intact. The entrance hall
has a modillion cornice and an elliptical arch to the stairwell at the back which
has an open-well, open-string staircase with a moulded mahogany handrail wreathed
over the curtail. The principal rooms have moulded plaster ceiling cornices and
possibly retain their chimneypieces.

Listing NGR: SX6396494125

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26611944

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version