Description

Hurst Barton etc, Hurst. 15/285 10/285

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Hurst Barton etc, Hurst. 15/285 10/285

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15/285 Hurst Barton, with front boundary railings and walling 19.4.61

GV II

House. 1657, with early C20 modifications. Ham stone ashlar; Bridgwater patent interlocking tiles between stepped coped gables; brick and stone slab chimney stacks. Two storeys, 6 bays, of which bays 2, 3 and 4 are probably the earliest work. Above, mullioned windows with beaded and architraved surrounds, 3-light except bay 4 which is 4-light, that to bay 5 being set lower, and no window upper bay 6; below, hollow-chamfer mullioned windows of 4 lights, bays 3 and 4, under continuous stepped label shared with the moulded flat-arched doorway to lower bay 2; lower bay 1 has an early C20 door in plain beaded surround, bays 5 and 6 similar doors, the last a pair, in architraved surrounds: some windows have cast iron opening lights with stays, now graced with C19 tulip finials. Interior not seen. About 2.5m east of house a low stone wall on which are set wrot-iron necked-pointed railings with cast acanthus finials to curved-braced standards, pairs elaborate panelled wrot-iron gates opposite doors to bays 2 and 6, and returns back to house: extending southwards a cut and squared Ham stone wall about 2m high with thin flat coping, with quarter-circle convex sweeps back to central gateway having square piers with coved pyramidal tops, contributing to setting of house and to the streetscene generally.

Listing NGR: ST4575418749

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)