Description

TL 12 SE LANGLEY LANGLEY END

4/58 Langley End House, 14.1.77 Bathgate House, and Clifton House (formerly listed as Hill End) and attached garden wall at NE

GV II

Country house, now 3 properties and attached garden wall at NE. Circa 1911 by E.L. Lutyens for Mrs. Fenwick as Hillend. Narrow dark red brick in English-bond with lighter red brick dressings, moulded stonework details, coved plaster eaves cornice. Steep handmade red tile roofs with swept valleys. A Georgian revival style 2-storeys H-shaped house facing W with wedge-shaped 2-storeys service wing (now Clifton House) adjoining on N facing the lane. Roof sweeps down to single-storey at entrance in recessed centre with moulded stone eaves gutter on W between 2-storeys wings. Central double doors flanked by 4-lights casement windows with small panes 3 hipped dormer windows on roofslope with leaded glazing and oak frames. Large rectangular central chimney. Flanking 2-storeys blocks have deep coved eaves, sash windows with 16/12 panes, and plat-band returned round LH wing ending in a circular brick 'dot'. In front of entrance a York stone terrace with hemicycle niches in brick piers with stone coping, at each end, similar to the gate piers at Temple Dinsley (q.v.). 7-bays, 2-storeys garden front on E has French doors on ground floor and casement windows to 1st floor. Central 3-bays recessed flanked by tall square piers, stone capped and with fat lead urns, linked by panelled parapet. N face of service wing has 3 casement windows to 1st floor interrupting the eaves band,central door in recessed panel, 2 rectangular-leaded larder windows, and projecting beaked moulding of garden wall coping continued across ground floor of building. Wall higher continues to E alongside lane with heavy panelled door in recessed round-arched gateway with splayed external jambs, segmental outer arch and tile courses as spandrels. (Pevsner (1977)222: Lutyens Exhib Cat (1981)194).

Listing NGR: TL1994023970

External Links

• Wikidata Q26471105

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)