Description

MELTON ROSS RACE LANE
TA 01 SE
(west side, off)
High Wood Farmhouse
6/31
GV II

Farmhouse. c1830 for J G S Smith, with additions to left and rear of c1860.
Yellow-grey brick in Flemish bond. Welsh slate roof. Early section L-
shaped on plan: 2-room central entrance-hall front, double-depth, with
stairhall to rear and wing to rear right; Later C19 drawing room and rear
wing to left. South front: 2 storeys, 3 bays; symmetrical. Plinth, central
bay slightly recessed. Flight of 3 stone steps to plain board door beneath
radial fanlight flanked by plain pilasters and jamb-lights with stone sills
beneath segmental rubbed brick arch. Wide segmental-arched tripartite
sashes with glazing bars (apart from plate glass lower central sashes to
ground floor), stone sills and segmental rubbed brick arches. Deep eaves
with paired brackets. Hipped roof. Pair of axial stacks with stone coping
and square pots. Left and right returns have recessed 12-pane sashes under
rubbed brick flat arches. Wing set back to left has full-height flat-roofed
canted brick bay with plate-glass sashes. Hipped roof. Interior. Open
well staircase with ramped and wreathed handrail, slender tapered column
balusters and clustered newel; moulded cornices to main rooms, entrance and
stairhall; main rooms on each floor have 6-beaded-panel doors and windows
with shutters in ribbed architraves with carved paterae at the angles and
moulded cornices; similar surround to fireplace in study to rear left.

Listing NGR: TA0675412005

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26500102

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Recommended Books

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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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