Description

TR 3054 EASTRY HIGH STREET

(west side)
12/144 Eastry House

GV II

House, now institution. Early C19, added to in late C19. Rendered with
slate roof. Two storeys with rusticated ground floor and parapet with stacks
to centre and to end right. Five bay front, consisting of glazing bar sashes
set in 2 storey elliptically arched recesses. The 2 end left window bays
project, as does that to centre right, topped with a cornice and parapet,
and containing the entrance, a panelled door in the right side of 1 storey
porch with tripartite glazing bar sash to front. Later C19 wings to rear and
C20 1 storey extension to left. Interior; stair with wreathed handrails and
turned principal newels, unturned balusters on open string; 2 flights with
full landing. Staircase hall with egg and tongue frieze and plaster ceiling
rose. Other Neo-Classical details elsewhere in building. Chamfered ceiling
joists in rear range indicate probable earlier core to building.

Listing NGR: TR3092854868

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26323824

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)