Description

1.
5004 ERSKINE HILL
(west side)
NWll

No 13
TQ 2588 26/38 18.3.65

II

2.
Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens. Grey brick with red dressings. Of 2 storeys and
3 window bays. Centre door, with red brick pilasters and small cornice above a blind
tympanus which has a moulded plaster (or wood?) arabesque in a baroque pattern.
Above is a high staircase window breaking into the roof as a half dormer. This
window is set in a red brick projecting framework and is surmounted by a pulvinated
frieze, cornice and pediment. Two dormers either side. The ground floor windows on
either side of door are the normal sashes. The first floor windows are casements set
in slight recesses in the brickwork. A return elevation of 2 window bays overlooks
the forecourt of Nos 10 and 12. The elevation to Temple Fortune Hill has a brick
canted bay, carried up as a parapet above the eaves and with a semi-circular headed
window set in red brick pilasters and arch with small springing and keystones. A
dormer window is behind the parapet. Featured chimney stack on this elevation.

Listing NGR: TQ2535288602

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26349907

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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)