Description

AVETON GIFFORD ROCK HILL SX 64 NE 4/28 Hillside Rest Home GV II Detached house on steep hill slope. Early C19. Rubble, slate roof to clay ridge, 2 brick gable stacks. Three storeys, 2 wide-spaced windows, 16-pane sashes to cambered brick heads, but ground floor right has 2-light glazing bar casement to flat brick arch, to right of C20 glazed door in gabled hood on rustic poles. Gables plain. Back has flat-roofed full-width extension with flat roof, not of special interest; at second floor level are two 2-light glazing bar casements in slate hung wall. To left of front a single storey extension in rubble, asbestos-cement roof, with 3 plank doors, perhaps a former donkey house; small light at eaves. To the right a short section of wall connecting with outhouse to Auton (q.v.), with wide plank door and large cast iron decorative knocker. Across the front of the house a series of steps to the hill slope.

Listing NGR: SX6939747475

External Links

• Wikidata Q26401953

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