Description

SK 26 SW PARISH OF BIRCHOVER THE GREEN
4/1 (South Side)
Green House and attached
garden walls and gate piers
12.7.67 II*

House. 1774 with minor C20 repairs. Coursed squared gritstone with gritstone
dressings and chamfered quoins. Stone slate roof with stone gable end stacks and
stone coped gables. Plinth and moulded eaves cornice, raised at corners over quoins.
Three storeys, three bays, L-plan with staircase in rear wing. Central moulded door-
case with raised keystone, plain entablature with moulded hood and glazed panelled
door. To either side, glazing bar sashes in flush surrounds with raised fillet to edge.
Above, two similar with central circular traceried window between. Above again,
three small glazing bar sashes with similar surrounds to those below, except central
one has extra moulding. East gable wall has lead gutter with hopper head inscribed
'GB 1774'. West elevation of rear wing has large Venetian staircase window.
Original leaded lights to 2-light windows on east elevation of rear wing. Interior
has fine, turned baluster dog-legged staircase, with wide, ramped, moulded handrail,
through three floors. Moulded cornices and decorative plasterwork bosses to front
rooms on ground and first floors. First floor east room has carved classical stone
fireplace, ground floor east room has large bracketed stone fireplace with fluted
brackets. Original panelled doors throughout with original locks. Attached to
either side of south elevation, coursed squared gritstone garden walls with flat
copings. To either side near the house, flush quoined doorcases with plank doors,
beyond, to south, walls ramp downwards. Attached to rear wing, low rubble wall
with pair of gate piers to end, square in plan and rusticated with moulded cornices,
both partly buried.

Listing NGR: SK2377462084

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17545631

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings