Description

TM 0475
6/11
29.7.55

BOTESDALE
MARKET PLACE (SOUTH EAST SIDE)
Osmond House

GV
II

House, now with flats and a teashop. Early C19. White brick and plastered
timber frame, some red and yellow brick. Slate roof. 3 bays. 3 storeys with
cellar. Steps up to central entrance: part raised fielded 6 panelled door,
oval and diamond traceried fanlight, panelled reveal, loosely Doric doorcase
has inner semi-round reeded surround, frieze blocks and mutules, outer
pilasters with guttae to dentilled pediment. Small cellar openings have
gauged brick heads, ground floor 16 pane recessed sashes with gauged brick
flat arched heads of yellow brick, stone sills, first floor similar 4:8 pane
sashes, second floor similar 4:4 pane sashes. Mutule eaves cornice. Axial
ridge stacks in outer bays. Brick left return, red towards rear. Timber
frame on offset plinth to right end and to rear, mixed fenestration. To rear
French windows, a lean-to addition and an external stack. Interior: dogleg
staircase with slat balusters, moulded and wreathed handrail, turned newel
post, cheekpieces.

Listing NGR: TM0478775841

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26508221

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair