Description

SD 52SE LEYLAND HEALD HOUSE ROAD

9/35 Heald House
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- II

House, dated 1706, altered in C19. Brick on stone plinth, rendered except
on rear wall, roof of blue tiles. Rectangular double pile plan, 2 storeys
and attic, 3 symmetrical bays. Plinth; bands to let and 2nd floors. Door
with pilastered stone jambs and semicircular fanlight plain glazed; arched
wooden porch (c.1920); datestone over door with floral decoration and
lettering in relief:
S
A M
1706

Two windows on ground floor, 3 on 1st floor, all sashed with C19 surrounds,
eared and minimally-pedimented; 3 gabled attic dormers with sashed windows.
C19 canted bay on left return wall. Interior: dog-leg staircase with
half-landings, of late C17 type: oblong columnar newels with pendents,
broad string, turned balusters and broad moulded handrail (this is in rear
extension, the outer walls of which are C19); section of carved and panelled
wainscot in hall passage, said to have been taken from Nelson's
"Foudroyant", but C17 in style; doors with fielded panels.

Listing NGR: SD5522621508

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26330585

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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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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas