Description

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ST 9961 DEVIZES ST JOSEPH'S ROAD

1/10000 Parkdale House and attached
railings, wall and outbuilding

- II

House. Built 1824 for George Washington Anstie, Solicitor, on land
given by his father B.W. Anstie. Stucco over brick; hipped Welsh slate
roof; stucco stacks. Double-depth central stairhall plan. 2 storeys;
symmetrical 5-window NE front, has 1:3:1 fenestration articulated by
pilasters to blocking course. 4/8 first-floor and 8/8-pane ground
floor sashes. Flat-roofed porch with pilasters and ½-glazed 6-panelled
double doors. Rear elevation of 1:2:1: fenestration articulated by
pilasters: four original 8/8-pane sashes, 2 french windows to centre,
mid C19 window in widened opening to ground-floor left. Fine tented
verandah with decorative ironwork. Decorative wrought-iron railings
surmount terrace wall to front, with gas lamp in SE corner. To left
(E) of front is approx. 10m of stucco wall with brick lean-to attached
to pyramidal slate-roofed 2-storey outbuilding, built of Flemish bond
brick with cast-iron Gothic windows. Interior: panelled doors and
shutters, moulded cornices, open-well stair with stick balusters and
wreathed handrail, large kitchen fireplace and dressers; fireplaces
mostly date from refitting of c1870, and include simple marble
fireplace of cl820's in S ground-floor rear left room. The Anstie
family constructed the tobacco and snuff factory (qv) at the rear of
New Park Street and Snuff Street in 1785. G.W. Anstie lived at
Parkdale until his death in 1882. A fine and well-preserved Regency
villa.

Listing NGR: ST9975461542

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26553165

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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