Description

ST 57 SE LONG ASHTON NORTH ROAD LEIGHWOODS

5/10000 Alpenfels

GV II

House, c1872 and for Francis F Fox, Chief Engineer of the Bristol and Exeter Railway from 1872. Snecked and hammer-dressed Pennant stone with Bath stone quoins; gabled low-pitched roof with alternating bands of plain and fish scale tiles. Rectangular plan. Swiss Cottage style. 2 storeys with attic; 3-window range to gabled front. Gabled porch with chamfered pointed-arched doorway with finial and outer pendentives to decorative fretted bargeboards. Stone lintels over windows with flanking shutters and richly decorated and bracketed openwork balconies to first and second floors. Exterior staircase and dormer with decorative tile cheeks and bargeboards. Large carved brackets to wide overhanging eaves with similar decorative bargeboards to all elevations. Similar rear elevation with latticed casements to oriel window and 2-storey square bay windows. Interior: upper floor has panelled doors and latticed woodwork; ground floor noted as having panelling, Gothic-style fireplaces and Minton tile floors. A fine and dramatically-situated example of a house in this style.

Listing NGR: ST5629573020

External Links

• Wikidata Q26421902

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