Description

EAST ALLINGTON HARLESTON
SX74NE Harleston including
4/64 Outbuildings adjoining
West

II

House. Circa 1830-40. Plastered stone rubble. Asbestos slate hipped roof
with deep eaves. Stacks on sides and rear walls with rendered shafts with
moulded cornices.
Plan: Double depth plan. 2 principal front rooms with a stair-hall between
and service rooms behind. The kitchen is in a wing at the rear left which
returns as a service range around a small courtyard on the right side of
which there is a lofted outbuilding, probable stables. Across the front of
the house there is a verandah.
Exterior: 2 storeys and cellar. Symmetrical 3-window each front. Early
C19 16-pane sashes, larger sashes on the ground floor and narrower 12-pane
sash at centre of first floor. Central doorway with early C19 6-panel door
with rectangular overlight with margin panes. Across the front the original
verandah with an asbestos slate hipped canopy on slender wooden Tuscan
columns, the left hand end column has been replaced. The left hand
elevation has an asymmetrical arrangement of C19 casements and a C20 Fench
window. The right hand return facing the road is also asymmetrical with C19
sashes and casements with glazing bars.
At the back left, a wing which returns as a service range around a small
courtyard, on the right hand side of which is a lofted outbuilding, probably
stables, which has a hipped slate roof, external stairs on its end wall next
to the extrance to the yard. On 2 sides of the yard a pentice roof on
timber posts.
Interior observed from the front doorway only. There is an open-well
staircase with an open string, stick balusters and mahogany handrail
wreathed over a column curtail newel. The entrance hall has a modillion
plaster cornice and original panelled doors in moulded doorcases. There are
panelled internal window shutters and plaster cornices and other C19 joinery
such as chimney-pieces might remain.

Listing NGR: SX7940045075

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26457122

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Recommended Books

• 
  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)