Description

LOOSE VALLEY
TQ 7552 LOOSE
6/189
Woodlawn (formerly
listed as Woodlawn
23.5.67 Park)
II
House. Early C19. Clad with channelled render. Slate roof. Irregular
plan. 2 storeys and cellar on rendered stone plinth. South (entrance)
front: right end bay projects forwards. Front room of left end bay
extends further than rest of house. Moulded rendered plat band above
ground and first-floor windows. Plain lead-capped parapet. Rendered
ridge stack towards left end. Regular 4-window front of 3 recessed
12-pane sashes, and one tripartite sash to right projection, all with
Venetian shutters. Intertwined initials to ground-floor shutters.
Raised band above plat band over each ground-floor window. Rendered
single-storey porch in angle between main range and right projection,
with chamfered corners, moulded cornice, and plain parapet stepped up
over doorway. Half-glazed double doors with side and top lights and
segmental head. East return elevation (garden front): plat band and
parapet continued from front elevation. 2 rendered stacks flanking
central break. Regular 5-window front of 12-pane sashes with thin
glazing bars and painted splayed voussoirs; 3 closely-spaced to
shallow central break and one, more broadly spaced, towards each end.
Broad single-storey ground-floor bow across break, with three 15-pane
sashes with blind boxes. Incised border to bow and incised panels
to parapet of bow. 2 moulded semi-circular stone steps to central
window. Single-storey service rooms infilling north-west corner of
house. Interior: entrance hall and ground-floor corridor tessellated
in blue, brown and peach. Plaster cornice with paterae. Consoled
arch to each end of corridor. Semi-circular fanlight with radiating
glazing bars behind north end arch, lighting corridor from north-east
room. Elliptical geometrical staircase towards centre of west side,
with stick balusters, carved cheeks and wreathed inlaid handrail.
Panelled doors off ground-floor corridor. Enriched plaster cornices
to ground-floor rooms and plainer cornices to first floor. Marble
fireplaces. Service stairs.

Listing NGR: TQ7553952698

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26542567

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Recommended Books

• 
  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  For the Record
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability