Description

FOWNHOPE CP FOWNHOPE SO 53 SE 7/35 Fownhope Court 20.10.52 - II Country house now divided into tenements. C17 core, remodelled C19, C20 alterations. Rendered sandstone rubble and brick with slate-roofs, decorative brick shafts to stacks. L-plan with main range aligned north- west/south-east facing south-west, rear wing extends to north-east, main axial stacks toward north-west and south-east of main range with lateral stack to rear, further axial stack to rear (former service) wing, former main entrance to centre of south-west front. Two storeys, attic and cellar; south-west front: two gabled bays flank narrow central bay, C20 windows in gables, two 3-light mullioned and transomed windows to left and one similar window and a 4-light window to outer bay to right of central 2-light window, left outer window projects on moulded base with pointed arch-headed doorway below with French casements, right outer bay with canted bay window. Mock timbering in gables with decorative bargeboards. Window to left return possibly of C17 date. Interior inaccessible.

Listing NGR: SO5793434732

External Links

• Wikidata Q26473775

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  For the Record
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)