Description

QUEEN CAMEL CP CHURCH PATH (North side)
ST52SE
WALES
6/87 Wales House, with front boundary
railings and east side wallings

GV II
Detached house. C17 and onwards, major reshaping in C19. Local lias stone cut and squared, of several periods on south
front; Welsh slate roof with stepped coped gables; yellow and red brick chimney stacks. L-plan and double roof plan; 2
storeys, 5 bays. Mostly 2-light wide horizontal bar casement windows set in segmental arched voussoired openings.
clearly later insertion to bays 3, 4 and 5; French windows lower bays 3 and 5 to upper bay 1 a 2-light beaded surround
mullioned window, one half rectangular leaded; to lower bay 4 a part-glazed C19 door set in C18 architrave and open
Tuscan portico with full plain recess with square label; otherwise mostly early C19 windows this elevation. Interior
not seen. Extending from north-east corner back towards Wales Bridge (qv) a 3 metre high stone wall with piers at about
4 metre intervals, plain coping, plan curved to road. From south-east corner a lower wall, about 1.75 metres high, with
sweeps up at each end; from this wall on south side an almost semi-circular low stone wall with Ham stone coping
crowned with early C19 wrot iron railings to about 1.5 metres high, having necked and pointed tops; in centre opposite
portico pair gatepiers about 2 metres high with tall moulded plinths, rusticated ashlar shafts and bell-hip tops; pair
gates with curved tops to match, all contributing to setting of house, which belonged to the Crowbrow family in 1795
and then the Mildmays by 1842.

Listing NGR: ST5868524725

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26541287

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (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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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)