Description

TQ 85 NE BREDGAR SWANTON STREET (west side)

7/6 Swanton Street 27.8.52 Farmhouse

GV II* Farmhouse. Front of 1719 to earlier building. Brown brick with red brick dressings and plain tiled roof. Three storeys and basement on plinth with giant pilasters to left and right projecting central bay and splayed at top shaped parapet gable with hipped roof and stacks to left and right. Regular fenestration of 3 semi-circular headed wood casements on top floor, 5 glazing bar sash on first floor, the central with semi-circular fan light over and keyed and rusticated surrounds, and 4 glazing bar sash on ground floor. Apart from the central window, all windows with aprons and gauged heads with keystones developed into large brackets. Central door of 6 raised and fielded panels with semi-circular fanlight with keyed and gauged surround at head of flight of 3 steps. Basement openings to left and right, 1 storey red brick extension to right. Keystone to door inscribed: EH 17 19 Interior: full pine-panelled rooms, original early C18 staircase turned balusters and curved hand rail. The 1719 work done for Edward Holliday, a London goldsmith. (See B.O.E. Kent II, 1983, 158. Also K. Downes, English Baroque Architecture, London 1966).

Listing NGR: TQ8769659476

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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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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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)