Description

ST 86 NW BOX BOX HILL

2/33 Nos. 1 and 2 London Terrace
(Grove Farm)

II

Pair of houses, early C18, extended, ashlar fronted and rubble
stone with stone tiled roof. Coped gables and end wall stacks to
main range and rear wall stack to No 1. Two storeys. No 2, to
right, is original range with first floor 2-light flush chamfered
mullion window to left and paired 3 and 2-light flush cyma-moulded
mullion windows to right. Ground floor 2-light flush chamfered
window, door in stone slab porch with flat hood and to right, door
with blank arch over and stone slab porch with flat hood and
moulded heads to piers. To right, paired 2-light flush cyma-
moulded mullion windows and dripstone over. Right hand addition,
with coped gable and end wall stack has rosette datestone MW 1789
on end wall and front 2-window range. Upper C20 window over door
in stone slab porch with rounded piers and flat hood. To right C20
window replacing 2-light flush cyma moulded window and 2-light
flush cyma moulded window above. At left end of main front, No 1,
C19 rubble stone with door and window to left. To right of door on
original corner stone is inscribed 'London Place'. Behind rear
wall stack, rear wing, originally with 2-light window and hoodmould
to each floor. Ovolo-moulded frame survives to upper window,
hoodmould only to lower window. This section indicates that front
of No 1 is rebuild of early C18 house.

Listing NGR: ST8325469128

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26273174

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)