Description

TL 1406 NE 14/104
1582

HOLYWELL HILL (West Side)
No 40 (Holywell House)

8.5.50.

II* GV

1785, Sir Robert Taylor architect, for Sir William Domville, later Lord Mayor of London. 3 storeys, 5 windows, yellow brick with low parapet, and pediment over 3 central bays, over cornice the full width of buildings. Stone string at first floor cills and band at first floor level across 3 centre bays. Balustrade to centre window. Gauged, flat, brick arches to recessed sash windows with glazing bars. 6 steps to door of 6 fielded, bedded panels with cornice head and decorative fanlight in deep, plain reveal within doorcase of Ionic columns and entablature filth enriched cornice. Oast iron area railings and handrail. Wrought iron overthrow with lamp holder in front of door. Inside a first floor room as Adam fireplace in marble with flanking round arched niches. The ground floor. room below has another Adam fireplace with decorative plaster composition above, similar niches, ornamental frieze and enriched door and window architraves. There are other period fireplaces and a well staircase, although the lower flights of this are not original.

Nos 36 to 58 (even) form a group.

Listing NGR: TL1463906964

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q55341582

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments