Description

CHACEWATER THE SQUARE (west side), Chacewater
SW 74 SE
5/82 No 2
30.5.67
GV II
Small house. Circa 1820. Killas and elvan rubble with elvan and freestone dressings
with cob to part of right gable end and the stud and plaster wall to wing. Scantle
slate roof sweeping lower to rear, left, with brick chimneys over gable ends. L-
shaped plan of 2 front rooms with central cross passage and stair and 1-room kitchen
wing to rear, right and narrow service room to rear left. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 2-
window north east road front. Central freestone and elvan ashlar doorway with plain
pilasters, moulded impost stones round-headed arch with keystone, architrave and
cornice. Top-glazed 6-panel door with blind fanlight over. Rendered plinth and flat
dressed stone arches with projecting keystones over windows. Elvan sills. Original
12-pane hornless sashes with mostly original crown glass. Original sashes also to
wing and stair and original 16-pane 2-light casement to rear, left.
Interior is little altered with original T-plan stair, and mahogany doors with
moulded architraves; original floors, bead moulded beams to wing and original roof
structure. Blocked borrowed light between right-hand room and passage suggests that
front door fanlight has always been blind. Cobbled pavement to front.
An interesting example of a small town house with farmhouse plan of rear kitchen wing
and integral service room modified and reduced in scale to suit the site.

Listing NGR: SW7508544405

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26433684

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Recommended Books

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)