Description

SU 65 SE
289/11/10025

OLD BASING
Huish House

II

House. 1909, for the Westray family. Architect not known. English bond red brick ground storey and applied timber-framing above with tension-braces and rendered panels; rock-faced stone window arches and doorway. Clay plain tile roof with half-hipped gables. Brick axial stacks with red terracotta moulded shafts. STYLE: Domestic Revival. PLAN: long range with short cross-wings at either end. Double-depth plan with entrance lobby to right of centre into an axial stairhall and with principal rooms behind on the garden front. Service rooms at left [SE] end. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Asymmetrical NE entrance front with half-hipped gabled wing to right and slightly projecting half-hipped wing to left of centre, with 2-storey brick porch between rising above low eaves with splayed stone doorway with segmental arch and bowed timber oriel over on shaped bracket. Flat-roof dormers between. Wooden mullion-transom windows with iron-frame casements with leaded panes. SW garden front is symmetrical but for dormers on right and French casement on left; projecting half-hipped end bays and overhanging eaves at centre. INTERIOR: very little altered and retains most of its original fine features, including good chimney-pieces, some with Delft tiles, an inglenook, panelling, plate-rails, screens, plasterwork, fine staircase with Jacobean style strapwork balustrade similar to balustrade to the drawing room steps, door to dining room with integral hatch and glazed tiles in larder and to kitchen fireplace.

Listing NGR: SU6726951442

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26537913

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)