Description

ST5015 0DCOMBE CP LOWER 0DC0MBE (East side)
10/256 No 51
(Townsend) and front boundary
railings
(formerly listed is Towsend
Farmhouse)
19.4.61
GV II
Detached house. Probably C17. Raw stone roughly cut and squared ashlar dressings, to bays 1 and 2, remainder ashlar;
Welsh slate roof between stepped coped gables; stone slab chimney stacks. two storeys, 4 bays. Hollow-chamfer mullioned
windows of 3 lights with labels, all rectangular-leaded with iron-framed opening lights, and all in wave-mould recesses
except bay 1 where recesses are chamfered; to lower bay 3 a fair of boarded doors in cambered arched doorway with
incised spandrils and deep lintol with square label. Lean-to against north gable with simple light window having beaded
surround, and a north porch. Interior not seen. About 2 metres west of house are wrot iron railings set on low stone
wall, with simple necked points to rails and cast fleur-de-lys finials to arch braced standards, and with matching gate
opposite doorway, having ogee bracing and scroll ornament to middle and bottom rails, all adding to the setting of the
house and to the streetscene.

Listing NGR: ST5095815928

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26534542

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock