Description

ST 68 NW OLVESTON CATHERINE HILL (east side)

8/174 The Old Meeting House 12.4.72 - II

Quaker meeting house, now house. C17 with later alterations and additions including meeting room to rear of 1695. Rubble, pantiled roof with stone ridges and gable stack to south. L-plan including rear block with 2 half- hipped roofs joined at centre valley. 1½ storeys, 3 windows, 2 gables each with C20 window with timber lintel, ground floor has C20 windows to left with timber lintel, double doors between gables and 4-light casement to each side with timber mullions and lintels, leaded lights and loop catches; north wing has garage door and C20 dormer to west and south, similar dormer to left of main block, south elevation has 2-light casement in gable with timber lintel and leaded lights. Rear has two 24-pane sashes. Interior: plank and batten doors, winder stair diverging to right and left, 2 timber piers with cornice in front room, probably marking rear wall of house before extension for meeting room, which has removable panelling of double shutters and double doors; ground floor front windows have flat mullions to left and chamfered mullions to right, decorative catches.

Listing NGR: ST6005986792

External Links

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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)