Description

SO 74 SE COLWALL CP MATHON ROAD

4/84 Hoe Court

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House. Mid C18, re-modelled and extended in mid C19. Italianate. Stucco finish, slate roofs, 4 decorative gabled stacks to ridges. 3 storeys, 1:4 windows, the left part forming a taller gabled and dormered cross-wing emphasised by a delicate loggia with cast-iron columns; French casements to ground floor, 6 pane casements to first and second floors: each of the three floors is separated by pronounced string courses; deep decorative brackets to eaves; 3 tympana, on small scrolled brackets above each of the 3 main first floor windows of the cross-wing; quoins to corners of both parts provide visual separation. Entrance from right return through single storey stone porch. Interior: spinal corridor from entrance leads to austere open well softwood mid C19 staircase with turned balusters and third flight to higher third floor rooms of cross-wing; semi-circular headed architraves to ground floor rooms. The poet Laurence Binyon, author of To the Fallen lived here in his youth. The stacks are made of concrete blocks in common with many buildings in Colwall created by the Ballard family from the 1860s onwards.

Listing NGR: SO7521043674

External Links

• Wikidata Q26359288

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