Description

SU 61 NE HAMBLEDON EAST STREET,
(north side)
8/14 Whitedale
12.2.87
II
Country house. C18 house, with early Cl9 extension, and late C19 minor extensions.
Stucco walls, the earlier part with parapet and cornice, the later with stepped
plinth, 1st floor band to the main front, and architraves to window openings. The
older part has a steep hipped slate roof, the later a low-pitched hipped slate roof
with wide eaves supported on coupled carved brackets. The early block and the
larger later block are connected along a short length of two long sides, the
angles between them containing minor units. The north west elevation shows the
earlier part as a regular facade of two storeys five windows (the upper centre
blank and the ground-floor 2nd and 3rd bay replaced by a wide opening beneath a
cambered arch. Sashes in exposed frames, the wide opening having two half-glazed
doors within side windows. The north east end elevation touches the later block,
which shows as a facade of two storeys and attic three windows. Sashes in reveals.
The angle is filled by a single storeyed extension which ends as a Greek Doric
porch, of two pilasters,two fluted columns, simplified entablature and half-glazed
double doors within an architrave. The south-east elevation of the later block
is a wide symmetrical facade with a half-octagonal centrepiece; two storeys,
2.1.2 windows. Minor buildings fill the south west angle, of two and one storeys,
and beyond the earlier block there is a single-storeyed service wing with brick
walls and tiled roof.

Listing NGR: SU6468215070

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26387835

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair