Description

SK 68 SE SCROOBY GREAT NORTH ROAD
(west side)

3/117 Scrooby Top
Farmhouse
1.2.67 Restaurant.
(Formerly listed as
Scrooby Top House).

G.V. II

Restaurant and house, formerly a staging-post on the Great North
Road. Early C18. Rendered red brick with an ashlar plinth.
Hipped concrete pantile roof with 2 rendered brick gable stacks.
2.1/2 storeys 5 bays, flanked by slightly recessed 2 storey, 2
bay rendered wings with concrete pantiles to the left wing and
slates to the right. Both have ashlar coped gables and single
brick gable stacks. Ground floor sill and 1st floor bands
extending to the flanking wings. Central doorway, panelled door
with traceried fanlight, keystone and surround of attached Doric
columns and entablature. Either side are 2 glazing bar sashes
with keystones, with 5 similar sashes and keystones above and 5
similar, smaller, sashes on the top floor. The left wing has 2
glazing bar sashes with keystones, with 2 similar sashes above.
The right wing has a single glazing bar sash with keystone, to
the right is a blocked window with keystone with 2 blocked
openings above, that on the left now containing a wooden slatted
opening.

Listing NGR: SK6539588928

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26532642

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)