Description

LAPFORD EASTINGTON
SS 70 NW
4/75
- Hopbines including rear cob
boundary walls to east and west
- II

House. Probably early C19, enlarged circa 1970. Plastered rubble; rubble stacks
with C19 and C20 thick brick chimney shafts; thatched roof. Main block facing south
has double depth plan with one front and one rear room on either side of central
entrance hall. C20 extension at right angles to rear of right (east). Front rooms
served by end stacks and large rear lateral kitchen stack to rear left. 2 storeys.
2-window front in which original symmetrical fenestration appears to have been
renewed in mid or late C19 with tall 12-pane sashes, and ground floor right has C20
canted bay window without glazing bars. Exaggerated eyebrows in thatched eaves over
first floor windows and another in centre. Central plank door with overlight and
plain flat hood. Roof with unusually steep pitch is hipped each end and is flanked
by tall chimney shafts. Left (west) front has late C19 French windows with glazing
bars and triangular headed top lights containing geometric patterns of leaded glass
towards rear and above it a casement with arched head (sloping sides and flat top)
containing geometric pattern of leaded glass. Thatched gable over. Another similar
window in rear elevation. C20 extension has various windows with glazing bars and
thatched roof hipped to rear. From each side of rear block high plastered cob walls
on rubble footings with pitched pantile coping extend east and westwards along
roadside. Western boundary wall includes a crank-headed archway.
Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SS7463109030

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26554228

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (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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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)