Description

WANTAGE PORTWAY
SU3987 (South side)
7/152 No.1
03/12/69

GV II

Includes No.44 Newbury Street.
House. Late C16/early C17, remodelled in C19. Stuccoed over original timber
framing; old tile roof. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys; 3-window range. Late C19
six-panelled door with overlight; C20 door and shop front to left. Late C19
ground- and first-floor bay windows to right; late C19 three-light casement to
left. Gabled roof. Similar 2-window range to left. Side wall has carved brackets
to flat hood over C19 six-panelled (2 glazed) door, and segmental arches over
late C19 ground-floor sashes and C20 first-floor casements. Gabled roof with
gable end stack, adjoins similar wing with gable end stack to rear right.
Similar C18 one-bay extension to rear left. Interior: Late C19 doors, except
three C18 two-panelled doors. Chamfered beams throughout, original joists to
front left. Timber-framed walling and partitions exposed in left rooms.
Queen-post roof with clasped purlins. Quarter-turn stairs in late C18 rear left
extension.

Listing NGR: SU3985087642

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26300646

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Recommended Books

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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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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)