Description

LONDON ROAD
1.
5128
(South Side)
No 44 (The Acacias)
and Railings
to street
SU 7272 9/162
II GV
2.
Before 1840 (shewn on Weller map). A detached 2 storey and basement villa
of Bath stone with hipped slate roof. Moulded eaves cornice. 3 windows 1st
floor, 2 on ground floor, glazing bar sashes with flanking full height pilaster
strips. Central door with segmental patterned fanlight. Plain Greek Doric
porch on stone steps. East return has 2 ground floor bows which have been
attributed to Waterhouse as alterations for William Isaac Palmer (of Huntley
and Palmers) who lived there - one has stairs to basement. Good conservatory
at rear with an extensive rockery. Linked to Greenbank by 3+3 window 3 storey
extension with 2 storey pavilion to right. The interior has a number of reeded
features (front door surround, ground floor back room fireplace etc). Excellent
contemporary ironwork to street - spearhead railings box panel standards and
double gates.

Listing NGR: SU7228172958

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26407378

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
• 
  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
• 
  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]