Description

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SJ9123 FOREGATE STREET 590-1/5/23 (East side) 17/12/71 Nos.62 AND 63

II

House, now office. c1698; front elevation rebuilt late C20; extensively refurbished. Chequer brick with ashlar dressings; internally central bay flanked by timber-framed cross walls; tile roof with brick end stacks. Double-depth plan. Georgian style. 2 storeys with attic; symmetrical 3-window range. Stone-coped plinth; stone platt band over ground floor and coved cornice. C20 round-headed entrance has doorcase with fluted pilasters, entablatures and pedimental hood, fanlight with radial glazing bars over 6-fielded-panel door. Windows have sills, and brick flat arches over 16-pane sashes; 3 gabled dormers with casements. C20 lean-to addition to right replacing original lean-to. Rear has gabled wing and single-storey C20 wing and lean-to outshut; some segmental-headed casement windows and skylights. INTERIOR retains chamfered beams and curved roof trusses suggesting original barrel-vaulted ceiling; forge to smithy of c1798. (Information held by Sutton Housing Trust).

Listing NGR: SJ9197123762

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