Description

ST4715 NORTON SUB HAMDON CP LITTLE STREET (North side)
9/227 Brook House, and front boundary
walls
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GV II
Semi-detached house. Early/mid C19. Ham stone ashlar; Welsh slate roof to shallow pitch with stepped coped gables;
stone and brick chimney stacks. Two storeys, 3 bays. Bay 1 has 3-light hollow-chamfered mullioned windows in chamfered
recesses, both with labels; bays 2 and 3 have 16-pane sash windows in plain openings; between bays 1 and 2 a projecting
porch, open with semi-circular arches to front and sides, with panelled piers with imposts, and architrave and console
keystone to arch; cornice mould and step to flat roof. Further mullioned windows in north gable. Interior not seen.
Enclosing the garden to the front, and attached to the adjoining building to the south (not included as the list) an
ashlar boundary wall about 1 metre high with thin coping, upsweeps to square gatepiers with pyramidal tops framing C20
iron gates, and continued around the north boundary, with some portions stepped up about 500mm, the corner curved: the
whole adding to the setting of the house and of the streetscene at an important junction in the centre of the
village.

Listing NGR: ST4704915806

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26551577

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)