Description

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5U7086
13/86 Sue Ryder Home
- II
Country House, now nursing home, formerly known as Joyce Grove. 1908 by C.E.
Mallows for Robert Fleming. Red brick; bath stone dressings; slate roof; brick
and stone stacks. Complex plan. Jacobean style. 2 storeys and attic; 13-
window range. Studded and ribbed double door to left of centre, wooden hood
suspended from wrought iron brackets. Central blind porch with round-headed
mullion and transom windows to 3 sides. Stone cross-windows to most openings.
Stone straight-sided 2-storey bay windows with mullion and transom windows to
cross wings. Balustraded parapet to roof with shaped cross-gables. Gabled
dormers to attic. Brick stacks of several flues, mostly to ridge. Other
elevations of same style and quality. Interior: Good quality Louis XV-style
panelling to most ground floor rooms. Staircase hall has Jacobean-style
panelling with wooden ribbed ceiling with painted panels. Staircase is
straight flight with winder. Staircase hall fireplace has stone hood with
niches, supported on columns. Fireplace to main bedroom, now the Flemming
Room, stone, carved with putti holding garlands. Attached stables and garage
block. History: House built for Robert Fleming, merchant banker. Passed to
Peter Fleming, explorer and writer, husband of Celia Johnson, actress, and
brother of Ian Fleming, writer of "James Bond" novels.

Listing NGR: SU7016686585

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Joyce Grove at Wikipedia
• Wikidata IDs Q16995495 Q26476412

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)