Description

1.
5305 BURTON STREET
(East Side)
No 55
(Cardigan House)
SK 7518 NW 1/15

II GV

2.
Early C19. Red brick house with stone bands between floors, wide eaves cornice
on paired modillions and slate roof. 3 storeys. 3 windows sashes with glazing
bars except 2 with modern glazing. Central modern glazed door with rusticated stone
surround and projecting stone porch using Roman Ionic order with plain frieze and
cornice. Good cast iron balcony above porch. Small terrace in front has lost its
railings. Viscount Brudenell lived here until his death in 1868. He became Earl
of Cardigan and, in 1854, ordered the Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean
War.

All the listed buildings in Burton Street form a group of which Nos 24 to 36 (even)
are of local interest.

Listing NGR: SK7539318885

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26528625

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record