Description

SX 86 NE KINGSKERSWELL ROSE HILL, Kingskerswell 3/181 Rose Hill House 23.8.55 - II House. Circa 1830-40 with later C19 addition. Stucco walls with shallow pitched hipped slate roof, gabled bays on each side with wide overhanding eaves and exposed rafter end. 3 rendered brick stacks:- one at left-hand gable end, one lateral to front of right-hand side and one lateral at rear of right-hand side. Double depth plan with central entrance hall leading to large stairwell at rear on left-hand side; 2 large heated rooms to the right-hand side on the principal front facing garden and view, rear one possibly kitchen; smaller heated room to the left at the front. Probably slightly later C19 addition at left-hand end housing service range. 2 storeys with attic. Asymmetrical 3-bay 2-window front with central gabled bay slightly projecting and forming entrance porch. Original 12-pane hornless sashes to left of porch. Porch has segmental arched opening with projecting Keystone, above is contemporary roundheaded sash window. Original 6-panelled door divided from narrow side panels by reeded architrave. Rectangular fanlight. A wide band below the first floor windows extends all the way around the house. The garden front to the right-hand side is symmetrical and has a wide slightly projecting pedimental gable at the centre with 3 original 12-pane sash windows on first floor which have Venetian shutters and decorative hoods above, also likely to be original. On second floor at centre is contemporary Diocletian window. The 2 ground floor windows to left and right are roundheaded in blind architraves, also with shutters. Lower blocked opening at their centre. Rear facade is repeat of entrance front without porch. At the left-hand end of the house is a lower, slightly later C19 addition. Extending from it to the left is a high rubble courtyard wall with carriage opening at left-hand end which has dressed stone segmental arch. Interior: the original open well staircase survives with stick balusters and curtail step, it continues for 2 storeys with a balustraded landing on each floor. Original panelled shutters survive in the principal rooms. Possibly original doors, faced at present with chipwood. This house is a good quality example of its period which preserves its original staircase and internal plan with a very unaltered exterior. Due to its prominent elevated site it is visible from various parts of the town.

Listing NGR: SX8782867794

External Links

• Wikidata Q26458485

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Recommended Books

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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock