Description

AVETON GIFFORD A379 SX 65 SE (off north side) 1/11 Grove Park Farmhouse - II Farmhouse. Early C19. Rendered rubble, exposed to back wall, asbestos-cement slate roof. A symmetrical central stair hall villa with wings, presented as a folly or eye-catcher to the road to the south. Two-storey 3-window centre, 12-pane plus margin bar sashes, low wings with crenellations have sash with horizontal bar, under stopped drips. Central crenellated porch with glazed door and pointed fanlight on 4 granite steps Hipped roof to box eaves, large eaves stack each side; lofty brick shaft on external stack to low right wing. Back has 2 and 3-light glazing bar casements and a central pent-roofed extension with plank door; large 3-light raking dormer. Interior: stick stair, contemporary doors with pointed heads to panels, right room has plaster ceiling rose, moulded cornices. Inner front door to pointed arch and with cusping. A handsome building with some architectural pretension, practically unaltered.

Listing NGR: SX6828850342

External Links

• Wikidata Q26401946

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Recommended Books

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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)