Description

1. 5259 KING STREET

No 27 (Watford Place) TQ 1196 SW 10/63 26.8.52

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2. Large stucco faced house of circa 1797, altered circa 1822. Two storey centre, one storey wings. Parapets. Slate roofs. Centre originally 3-storeys. Five window range, square headed windows above, long round headed windows below. Glazing bar sashes. Cornice, platband between floors and moulded ground floor sill band over basement. Central 3 bay porch, 4 Ionic columns with entablature. Curving side walls with round arched openings. Wide steps up. Wings 2 windows each with cornice carried around from centre block platband. Blank arched basement openings. Garden front similar, but without porch, basement and ground floor windows set in arched recesses and simple architrave surrounds applied to 1st floor windows with flat cornices over. Inside: central staircase hall with palmette balusters to stair and landing. Coved ceiling with plaster decoration. Good cornices and fireplaces.

Listing NGR: TQ1109396140

External Links

• Wikidata Q26394153

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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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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)