Description

UXBRIDGE ROAD
1.
5010
(Twyford Crescent)
W3
The Elms
TQ 18 SE 2/85 25.1.51
II*
2.
Circa 1720. Brown brick with red dressings. Two storeys and attic, 5 double
hung sashes in architraves with sills, segmental arches and keystones. Basement
plinth, 6 stone steps up to door of 4 triangular and 6 rectangular fielded
panels. Rusticated door surround. Four, 2-storey Roman Doric pilasters on
plinths and surmounted by entablature with pulvinated frieze and pediment
with elliptical arched windows. Welsh slate roof, 2 segmental-headed dormers.
Left hand one-storey late C18 wing of 3 dummy segmental-arched windows. Slight
central projection, parapet. Right hand late C18 two-storey office wing with
arcaded ground floor of 6 segmental arches.
North elevation has ground floor window with architrave, consoles and segmental
hood; door with elaborate carved consoles and large hood with soffit of 6
small fielded panels.
Interior: many panelled rooms. Some original unpretentious fireplaces, fine
turned balusters and carved spandrels to cut string staircase. Late C18 drawing
room has excellent plaster walls and plaster and painted ceiling in the Adam
manner.

Listing NGR: TQ1954580329

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17550806

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)