Description

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ST9970 SILVER STREET 755-1/5/141 (West side) 19/05/50 No.16 Vernleaze and attached service range and garden wall (Formerly Listed as: SILVER STREET (West side) No.16 Vernleaze)

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House. Early C19, extended c1840. Limestone ashlar with lateral stacks and slate hipped roof. Greek Revival style. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys; 4-window range. Clasping pilaster strips, frieze, cornice and blocking course; entrance front has a projecting left-hand wing, the right-hand 3-window section with an open stone 3-bay loggia on paired fluted Ionic cloumns, the left-hand entrance covered by a mid C20 glazed porch. Wing has a ground-floor blind doorway with eared and battered architrave, paired flanking pilasters and a ground-floor cornice. Plain windows with 12/9-pane sashes. Right-hand 3-window return with outer blocked windows beneath lateral stacks; lower mid C19 left-hand coursed rubble range set back, with lower rendered SW front. Garden front has a wide full-height bow. INTERIOR: details include a marble-flagged entrance hall divided by a distyle in antis flat arch of fluted Ionic colums, to a good rear top-lit stone open-well stair with stick balusters, moulded newels and curtail; cornices, panelled shutters, 6-panel doors, and stone fire surrounds with reeded sides and top, and corner roundels. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached brick stable range to the W with ridge dovecote, and NW garden retaining wall enclosing rear garden.

Listing NGR: ST9959070122

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