Description

ST03NW OLD CLEEVE CP
GOLSONCOTT

4/73 Golsoncott House

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- II

House. Dated 1912. Roughcast over rubble, squared and coursed red sandstone entrance tower with half timbered gabled
top, herringbone brick nogging, hipped bell-cast roof with overhanging eaves, large rendered stacks set on roof ridge,
2 right, one left of entrance. Plan: splayed L-shape, small octagonal entrance hall with services left and corridor
right linking the 2 slightly projecting wings of garden front, stairs and dining room fronted by 4 bay loggia. Arts and
Crafts style. One and a half storeys, many paned 2- and 3-light casements, 2 hipped dormers with gablets left, one
right, end bay left half timbered returned over loggica gabled top to 2 and a half storey entrance tower carried on
shaped brackets, ground floor left 4 irregular sized window openings, long corridor window right, entrance pentice
porch carried on shaped brackets, 4 centred arch doorway inscribed 1912, moulded plank door with wrought iron knocker
by Horrobin. Garden front, 1:2:1 bays, rendered asymmetrical by extra storey added to gabled tile hung wing right with
sleeping porch to left of left gabled wing, circular stone columns of 4 bay loggia with 2 hipped dormers above centre.
Loggia on left return now glazed. Interior: contemporary fittings including completely panelled and white painted
garden room. Built by Count Hochburg for his land agent on the Croydon Hall estate. A very picturesque composition in
the Arts and Crafts style of which there are very few good examples in the county.

Listing NGR: ST0240539041

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26309723

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Recommended Books

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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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