Description

TL 7886
10/7
7.5.54

BRANDON
HIGH STREET
No.70 (Oak House)

II*

House, formerly Inn. c.1730. Double-pile plan. 5 windows, 2 storeys with
attics. Gault brick with limestone modillion eaves cornice at front and rear
and string at 1st floor. 2-span roof, front section glazed pantiled, rear
section Roman pantiled and slated. Elliptical headed dormers with small-pane
casements. Parapet gables with gable chimneys of gault brick. Sash windows
with segmental arched heads of gauged brick; the sashes at 1st floor having
original small panes and thick bars, those at ground floor renewed with large
panes. C18 entrance doorway: a moulded broken pediment on console brackets.
Recessed within the doorway is a semicircular fanlight with thick radial bars.
Limestone steps. C19 half-glazed panelled door. Good original staircase with
moulded handrail and turned balusters. The entrance hall and 4 other rooms
have good joinery and moulded cornices of early C18. One parlour has full
fielded panelling; two 1st floor rooms have full-height reused early C17
wainscotting, one with a strapwork frieze at cornice level. 2 rooms have good
fireplace surrounds.

Listing NGR: TL7839086774

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17534902

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Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990