Description

PASTURE ROAD
1.
5255
Glaed Hame
TL 2131 SW 12/92
II GV
2.
1906 by B Parker and R Unwin. The most elaborate Parker and Unwin house to
be found in the Garden City. Tudor style with open plan form. One and a half
storeys. Main south front to garden with 3 gabled bays. Tiled roof with moulded
brick stacks. Carved gable bargeboards to window bays. Roughcast with exposed
studwork to first floor of bay windows. Former open sleeping gallery at east
end replaced by 2 storey reinforced concrete extension of 1921, also by Parker
and Unwin. Mullioned casement windows. Glazed French windows with added sidelights.
Interior with hall, living room and dining room designed to be used as one
space with concealed sliding doors between each room. Good interior joinery
with hall inglenook retaining one of the former 2 settles. Brick fireplace
(replacing former tiled surround) with copper hood. ('Some Houses at Letchworth'
Country Life, 21.12.1912.)

Listing NGR: TL2150131266

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26469280

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Recommended Books

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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014