Description

GRITTLETON THE STREET
ST 88 SE (north side)

3/41 Weighbridge House

GV II

House, c1840, probably by J. Thomson for J. Neeld of Grittleton
House, ashlar with hipped stone-slate deep-eaves roof and octagonal
ashlar stacks. Single storey and attic, picturesque cottage style
with long-proportioned windows, stone-mullioned to main floor and
in narrow half-hipped barge boarded dormers to attic. South front
has projecting hipped gable of cross wing to left and 2-window
range to right. Cross wing has 2-shaft ridge stack and south end
large square bay window with three 8-pane lights to front, and
stone brackets to hipped stone slate roof which is carried up to
base of 8-pane dormer at eaves of main roof. Main range to right
has two 6-pane dormers in roof, door in angle under half-hipped
stone-slated porch carried on shafted pier and 3-light window to
right with hoodmould. West side of cross wing has central
triangular bay window with stone brackets to eaves, half-hipped
dormer above. Half-hipped north gable. East side has 4-shaft
ridge stack, roof hipped to north and C20 link to east to formerly-
detached outbuilding with half-hipped south gable.

Listing NGR: ST8594480017

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26494407

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Recommended Books

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock