Description

ROTHBURY HIGH STREET NU 0501 (North side) 25/295 Orchard Guest House GV II House. c.1800 incorporating some earlier fabric, altered in mid C19. Squared tooled stone front, rubble left return and rear; tooled dressings; Welsh slate roof with one stack rebuilt in brick and rendered. Rectangular block with shorter parallel range to rear.

Front 3 storeys, 5 bays, slightly irregular. Right-of-centre 6-panel door in C19 stop-chamfered surround with moulded cornice; boarded door in raised stone surround on far left. Between doors a late C19 bay window with paired 4-pane sashes; other windows similar but in raised stone surrounds. Eaves cornice; coped gables; stepped-and-banded left end stack, stepped right end stack. Lower part of left return shows rubble of earlier building. Rear elevation shows various sash windows including 18-pane stair window.

Interior: Entrance lobby has late C19 half-glazed door with coloured margins. Lounge (east end of ground floor) has floral plaster cornice; entrance hall, stair well and passageways on upper floors have cornice of square panels with egg-and-dart ornament. Full-height dog-leg stair with stick balusters and moulded ramped handrail. 6-panel doors, some with fielded panels; panelled shutters.

Rear wings largely mid-C19, and not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NU0550801703

External Links

• Wikidata Q26293889

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)