Description

TL 3243 BASSINGBOURN-CUM-KNEESWORTH SPRING LANE
(West Side)
20/91
No 68
(Guise Court)
II

House. Early C18 with later C18 additions; c.1900 alterations and C20
renovation. Red brick with plain tiled roofs. Two storeys with attics,
original three 'bay' symmetrical facade. Late C18 rear stair turret with
hipped roof and outshut to north. Parapet gables with moulded brick corbels
and end chimney stacks. Deep modillioned wooden eaves cornice. Brick band
between floors and plinth. Central doorway with eight-panelled door and
patterned rectangular fanlight; doorcases with sunk panel pilasters, flat
canopy supported on plain brackets. Two recessed ground floor and two first
floor sixteen-paned hung sash windows with twelve-paned window above doorway;
two narrow hung sash windows at both floor levels within the space of the
gable chimneys. Interior: Staircase with original newels, finials and rail,
two raised and fielded panelled doors to attic rooms.

RCHM Reports 1950, 1967

Listing NGR: TL3354443555

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26457044

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Old House Care and Repair