Description

CARLTON COLVILLE BECCLES ROAD TM 59 SW 1/9 The Rookery (including - attached screen walls)

- II

House. C17 core with later C18 alterations (including stair addition and roof), early C19 facade and C19 rear wing. White brick facade, red brick to rear; mid C20 pebbledash render to gable ends. Pantiled roof, hipped to the right, with glazed black tiles to the front. 2 storeys and attic. 4 windows, inset sashes with glazing bars under flat brick arches; the 2 centre bays are slightly inset. 6-panel raised and fielded door and mid C20 pedimented doorcase. Flat parapet, continued round the right hand gable end. Internal stack and gable end stack to left. The left hand gable end has a first floor moulded brick string course, now rendered over. There are curved screen walls of red brick, each with a semi-circular arched opening and terminating in a square pier with stone ball finial. Good dog-leg closed-string stair with slender turned balusters; panelled dado. Exposed joisting to main ground floor room.

Listing NGR: TM5000390706

External Links

• Wikidata Q26283449

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Recommended Books

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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)