Description

TQ 55 SE IGHTHAM COACH ROAD
3/1 (west side)

Raspit Hill

II

House. 1924-25 by M H Bailie- Scott and Beresford for Mrs Fraser. Brown brick with
small amount of timber-framing and some tile-hanging. Plain tiled roofs. Entrance
front. Main block orientated east-west to rear with two 2-storey half-hipped return
wings to left, 2-storey gabled porch with strap-hinged boarded door to left of centre,
hipped staircase wing to right and half-hipped return wing at extreme right. Two
storeys; irregular fenestration of wood-framed metal casements. Projecting one-storey
catslide-roofed wing to left ending in taller hipped-roof arch with wooden bell-cote
leading into garden. Garage to right connected by 2-bay loggia-passage with Tudor
arch leading into garden and wooden bressumer supporting double-pitch roof. Garage of
red brick with tile-hung return gable to left. Plain tiled roof, hipped and with one
dormer to right. One storey and attic; 2 casements on ground floor, one in attic.
Large garage doors on ground floor, between casements. South front. Hipped plain
tiled roof with 2 lower hipped return wings and lower wing to right, recessed, with
further hipped return wing over columned sun-loggia. Recessed 3-window centre with
central ariel over stone door surround and glazed door. One storey splayed bay on
left-hand return wing and 2-storey splayed bay on right-hand wing. Interior:
Passage, staircase and upstairs corridor panelled in light-coloured oak. Interior
timber-framing visible in space entered through 2 arches from upstaires corridor above
porch. Three-flight wooden square-newel staircase with turned balusters.
Four-centred arched stone fireplace in library. Fireplaces with inset Delft tiles in
small drawing room and spare room upstairs. Dining room pilastered with ribbed
ceiling and Neo-Georgian fireplace. All casements individually made with original
metal-work. Panelled inner-front door with decorative wrought-iron latch. Wooden
sneck door-latches throughout. See The Builder, 24 September 1926 and 14 January
1929; Studio Yearbook of Decorative Arts, 1927: Houses and Gardens 1933; Country Life,
29 September 1934.

Listing NGR: TQ5818454791

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26327338

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Recommended Books

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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)