Description

LUPPITT ST 10 SE 10/66 Woodhayes 22.2.55 - II House. Early C19, possibly early C18 core. Flemish bond local brick, plastered on the front and sides; stone rubble or brick stacks with brick chimneyshafts; slate roof. Plan: U-plan building. The main block faces south and it has a 2-room plan with central entrance hall and main staircase. These are the principal rooms and each has a rear lateral stack. 2-room plan rear service blocks project at right angles to rear of each end. In both rear blocks the first larger room shares the main block stack. The right (east) rear block now contains the kitchen although the owner claims that the left (west) rear block was the original kitchen. Although the house looks like an early C18 house thoroughly refurbished in the early C19 there is no definite evidence of early C18 work. House is 2 storeys. Exterior: symmetrical 5-window front of 16-pane sashes (some of them horned replacements) arranged around a central doorway behind a Hamstone porch on top of a flight of 3 steps. Its pediment is carried on Tuscan columns. The front doorway contains double 6-panel doors. The front doorway contains double 6-panel doors. The roof is tall and steeply-pitched with sprocketted eaves. There are similar sash windows each side and to rear and a couple of C20 casements with glazing bars at the back end of each service wing. There is, at the back of the right (east) rear wing a service doorway containing a fielded 2-panel door (is this from the early C18 house?) Interior: contains some original (that is to say early C19) joinery detail including an open string stick baluster stair.

Listing NGR: ST1729402793

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• Wikidata Q26390422

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