Description

SE 8617-8717 BURTON UPON STATHER HIGH STREET
(west side)

5/11 The Old House
-

GV II

House, incorporating former outbuildings. C17 or earlier origins with
later C17 wing, mid C19 roof, C19 former outbuildings and c1960
alterations, including new windows throughout. Roughly-coursed
ironstone rubble with brick dressings; wing has brick gable and front in
English Bond. Timber lintels, brick stacks and additions, pantile
roofs. Main 3-cell range with baffle entry lies gable-end on to High
Street with projecting wing to left containing stairs and outer room,
forming an L-shape around a courtyard, with former outbuildings
extending beyond the angle. 2 storeys, 2 windows. Plinth, quoins to
right. 2-panel door to left of centre. Casements, 1 under a segmental
brick arch, all other openings under timber lintels. Stepped eaves.
Wing to left has moulded plinth on rubble base, a bricked-up entrance to
tile right. Casement windows, under rubbed brick flat arches to ground
floor. Roof hipped to right over main range, with central axial stack.
Wing has end stack and steeply-pitched gable preserving earlier higher
roofUne. Rear to Stather Hill: 2 storeys with 2 low storey and single
storey former outbuildings to right, irregular fenestration. Main range
has 2 C19 canted bays to left with 2 casements to right and 3 above
under lintels. Former outbuildings set forward, with 2 casements,
breathers and a blocked first floor opening under nipped and gabled
roofs. Interior of main range and wing has plain chamfered and ovolo-
moulded beams, chamfered brick-arched fireplaces and a re-set C17
balustrade with turned balusters and carved string.

Listing NGR: SE8702917806

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26454800

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Recommended Books

• 
  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)