Description

SOUTHWELL

CHURCH STREET SK7053 1919-0/11/28 (North East side) 07/08/52 No.25 Cranfield house and adjoining garden walls

GV II*

Former prebendal house of Oxton I, now a house. Built 1709 for canon George Mompesson. Brick with stone dressings and hipped slate roof. Plinth, rusticated quoins, first floor band, moulded eaves, 2 brick ridge stacks. Front windows all glazing bar sashes with plain surrounds. 2 storeys plus attics, 5-window range. Central first floor window has moulded surround and segmental pediment breaking into the eaves. Attic has 3 gabled dormers. Moulded doorcase with half-glazed door and overlight. Interior has 2 panelled rooms and original staircase. This building closely resembles Mompesson House, Salisbury, built c1701 by another member of the family. Adjoining brick garden walls have gabled coping. Street side has a central pair of square stone gatepiers and simple wrought iron gates. This building is one of the 9 remaining prebendal houses formerly attached to Southwell Minster. (Norman Summers: A Prospect of Southwell: London: 1974-: 85-86).

Listing NGR: SK7025253896

External Links

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