Description

SU 53 SE NEW ALRESFORD EAST STREET
(North Side)

8/57 No 29
(Cardew House) (formerly
5.12.55 listed as Cardew Hotel)
GV II

Large house. Mid C18, early and late C19. Brick and tile. Symmetrical front
(south) of 2 storeys and attic, 5 windows, with a wide addition at the east
side (of the middle date) of 1 window. Walling of red brickwork in Flemish
bond (with blue headers to the later wing) cement plain architraves, stone
cills. Victorian sashes (sashes of the early C19 at the east wing): 3 gabled
dormers with bargeboards and sashs. Doric porch with open pediment and panelled
soffit, 2 pilasters and 2 columns, with fluted necking, wide-arched-opening
with radiating fanlight, 6-panelled door. The original double-pile roof has
been replaced with a flat centre, overlapping with a tile-hung vertical at the
top of the front slope, with sash windows (the west an oriel) in the end gables,
which are flanked by chimneys. The house has a shallow forecourt, the east side
stopped by a single-storeyed service wing (i.e. up to the highway) of brick and
tile, and the west side by a high brick boundary wall (Flemish Garden Wall bond)
on a plinth.

Listing NGR: SU5901032690

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26387556

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)