Description

LANGPORT CP BOW STREET (South side)
ST4126
10/80 Ensor House
17.4.59
GV II

House, now warehouse. C18 origins, modified late C19. Red brick, Flemish bond, Ham stone dressings; plain clay tile
roof with bonnetted hips; brick chimney stacks. Three storeys, 4 bays. Stone plinth, pilasters to corners with Doric
style heads and bases dentilled brick cornice; sash windows in Gibbsian rusticated architraves with triple keystones,
12-pane to first floor and 9-pane to second: ground floor adapted c1900, with shopfront under fascia; now bricked up
with 4 steel casement windows inserted, under bays 1 to 3; to bay 4 an elliptical arched doorway with impost blocks and
single keystone to unmoulded arch, with boarded doors. Interior not seen - building apparently disused for some while,
October 1984. Stylistically the building could be by Nathaniel Ireson - the Hoare family of Stourhead were Lords of the
Manor, and Ireson worked for the Hoare family elsewhere.

Listing NGR: ST4189426751

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26555539

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy