Description

TL 30 NW BRICKENDON LIBERTY BRICKENDON LANE (West side)

3/47 Nos. 13, 15, 17, 19 - (Little Farden)

- II

Block of 4 estate houses. 1913 by Charles Edward Mallows probably for Demaine Saunders family. Roughcast with fan pargetting on brickwork, dark weatherboarding to apex of 2 front gables and aprons of bay windows, oak arcading to recessed fronts. Steep handmade red tile roofs with bellcast and laced valleys. Red brick internal chimneys. A symmetrical group of Arts and Crafts style estate houses set well back from road, facing S. 2-storeys at rear but roof swept down to single-storey along front and on inner sides of 2 short 1½-storeys wings projecting to front. Central passage to rear. Rectangular leaded bay windows alternate with moulded oak plank doors with iron strap hinges under front arcade with posts and long curved braces. 4 hipped dormers on front roofslope. 4 heavy square chimneys with enlarged tops, along ridge. Projecting gabled wings have 3-lights flush oak casement windows to Ist floor and 4-lights deeper window to ground floor, both with rectangular leaded glazing and iron opening lights. Set back at each end a hip-roofed wing extends to E and W, and low building in the angle. Authentic detailing includes pegged joints to framing of arcade, cockspur catches to metal casements, and oak benches beside the entrance doors. Land in front of block divided into quarters with axial path from road enlarged into circular path half-way, around octagonal platform of yellow paving brick with oak picket fence and cast iron pump fixed to post, with spurred spout.

Listing NGR: TL3236808070

External Links

• Wikidata Q26395413

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)