Description

PAINSWICK NEW STREET SO 8609-8709 (north west side)

8/162 The Fiery Beacon GV II House in row, with art gallery. Mid Cl9 front, but C18 work behind. Limestone ashlar, slate roof. At narrow frontage set gable to street, in a Tudor Gothic front to an earlier body: steep gable drops to short haunches. One window width in 4 storeys; to ground and first floors a wide, square bay with battlements, central recessed glazed door in 4-centred opening flanked by single pointed lights all to square head, with small buttresses in 2 offsets at corners, above this a 4-light stone mullioned casement, pointed heads under square opening to moulding below battlements, and single light returns. At second floor a 2-light, and in gable single light Tudor windows set to stopped hood moulds. At the back of the building a bull's-eye opening above a 12-pane C18 sash. To the right a large square stack. A very attractive little composition acting as a foil to the grand Beacon House (qv) adjoining.

Listing NGR: SO8663509735

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)