Description

BURFORD AND UPTON SHEEP STREET
AND SIGNET (South side)
SP2512 (Enlargement) Roche House and The
7/204 Chestnuts
12.9.55

GV II

House. Front dated 16 R A S 96. Ashlar with Cotswold stone roofs, ashlar
chimney with moulded architraves, bull-nose cills and moulded eaves
cornice. 2 storeys and attic. 2 gabled dormers. 2 windows, early C18
glazing-bar sashes; right-hand bay amended: on 1st floor a narrow single-
light window whose cill does not line up, on ground floor a simple
architrave and staff-mould door surround off-centre. Late C20 cast-iron
grille to throughpassage, date-stone over. L-plan with cross-wing to rear
courtyard, mullioned windows, the gabled wing is timber-framed. Interior:
flagged through-passage, the ground floor east room has restored raised
and fielded panelling and (?C20) bolection fireplace; said to have
contemporary staircase but not inspected. The reference to the rear wing
having been a Quaker Meeting House may be erroneous; perhaps induced by
the present of the Masonic Lodge next door to east (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SP2501412173

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26519380

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Recommended Books

• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings