Description

OLD LOOSE HILL
TQ 75 SE LOOSE
(East Side)
3/191 Olde Hill House
GV II
House. C17 with later additions and alterations. Rear left section
stone, with red and grey brick dressings. Right section rendered.
Front wing painted brick on ground floor, rendered above, with applied
framing. Plain tile roof. Rear range in 2 short sections, that to right
slightly set back. C17 wing of about 2½ timber-framed bays running
forwards from, and concealing front of, later left section. 2 storeys
and garret. Eaves of wing lower than eaves of rear left section.
Applied close-studding and decorative framing to front gable end of
wing. Half-hipped roof to left end of rear section and to front of
wing. Cusped bargeboards to gable of wing. Rear stack towards centre
of left section and gable-end stack to right. Ridge stack in narrow
bay at rear end of cross-wing. Truncated projecting brick stack
towards front of long left side of wing. Small gabled dormer to rear
left section. Irregular fenestration of one 3-light leaded casement to
first floor gable end of wing and one 4-light casement to right section.
Ribbed door to right section.Norwich Union Fire Insurance plaque to
right side of wing. Interior: exposed framing to wing. Gunstock
jowls to principal posts. Two brick-vaulted stone-walled cellars at
right-angles to left side of wing on ground floor, running into hill.

Listing NGR: TQ7578751925

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26542590

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)