Description

PORTLAND

SY6871 REFORNE, Easton
969-1/4/47 (North side)
No.4
Sugar Loaf Cafe

GV II

House and shop in row. Late C17, or early C18. Rendered, but
return gable, left, in good squared cut stone; asbestos cement
slate roof. Built as a two-room heated cross-passage plan. Two
storeys and attic, 2 windows. 4-pane sashes, but with enlarged
opening in plate-glass bottom left, a former display window.
Near-central C20 glazed door. Left gable return includes a
blocked small attic light in chamfered flush surround; large
kneeler stones to gable. There are also blocked single-light
windows in the right-hand party wall, visible inside No 30,
Easton Square (qv). Back has added C20 elements, but retains
central gabled section with kneelers, most coping stones
missing (June 1991), and with a former chamfer surround light
now with later casement at first-floor level. Interior retains
rough chamfered transverse beams, deep bressumer fireplace to
solid stone cheeks to right, flanked by rough timber beams or
joists in recess to left, one 4-panel fielded door, and a door
with wide planks to a winder staircase, centre back. Property
extended at back. This property is visually part of Easton
Square, part of a group with Nos 30 and 31 (qqv) in the
Square.
(Royal Commission on Historical Monuments: Dorset: London:
1970-: 256).

Listing NGR: SY6913671880

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26498669

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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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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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)