Description

LISKEARD

SX2464 WEST STREET 979-1/5/192 (South side) 22/07/81 Westbourne House and attached forecourt walls and railings (Formerly Listed as: WEST STREET (South side) Westbourne House)

GV II

Large suburban house. 1816. Possibly by J Foulston for NW Penrose, Solicitor, refronted 1860 by Henry Rice. Incised stucco with stone dressings; dry Delabole slate hipped roof with projecting eaves on wooden brackets; stuccoed stacks with cornices, moulded gutters. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys; 4-window range south garden front. Original hornless large-paned sashes within stone surrounds; segmental-arched lights to ground floor; left and right-hand bays with 4-pane sashes over 2-light windows with triangular pediments with mutules to cornices; central bays have stepped tripartite sashes over canted 4-light segmental-arched stone bay windows with balustraded parapets over similar cornices; column mullions with Corinthian or Ionic caps. Original north entrance front of 1:3:1-bays has central porch with blind sidelights, roundels to panelled frieze and railings over parapet; doorcase with panelled sides and traceried fanlight; 4-panel door with fielded panels; projecting end bays have ground-floor sashes with segmental arched recessed panels; original horned sashes; stair sash right of door over porch, with coloured glass and margin panes. INTERIOR of porch has rib vault; egg-and-dart cornice to vestibule; traceried fanlight over inner doors with Art Nouveau glazed panels; open-well open-string staircase with mahogany handrail scrolled over newel; moulded and carved cornice. Some other moulded cornices and more Art Nouveau detail. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: forecourt walls surmounted by railings with spearhead finials over bars and urns over stanchions.

Listing NGR: SX2496164660

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)