Description

1.
5113
SE 1416 SW 3/660

HIGH STREET (North Side)
Nos 4 and 6

II

2.
Mid C19. Ashlar, with alternating pink sandstone voussoirs and polished marble
colonnettes. 2 storeys. 3 gables with blind triple arcades on each. 3 pairs
pointed sashes with pointed relieving arches over each pair on 1st floor.
Ground floor has segment-headed archway in centre with elaborate cast iron
ornamental gates, flanked by oblong windows, flanked in turn by pointed arched
doorways with plate cusping, and doors with 6 elaborately moulded panels.
Wealth of high quality ornamental carving, rarely repeating itself: eg 6 keystones
with masks, sculpted spandrels to archway and 1st floor windows, Romanesque
capitals to colonnettes, and bands of foliage around voussoirs of doors and
archway, and under 1st floor sills.

Listing NGR: SE 14396 16485

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26427518

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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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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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)