Description

KINGSTON BAGPUIZE WITH SOUTHMOOR

SU39NE FARINGDON ROAD,
Southmoor
1695-0/4/10000 (North side)
Heath House

II

House. Dated 1837. Built for Richard Church. Stone rubble with red brick quoins and stone lintels. Slate roof with gabled ends. Brick gable-end stacks. PLAN: 2-room plan main front range with an entrance and stairhill at centre and with a kitchen wing to the rear of the left room. Later in the C19 a 2-storey outshut was built behind the main range and a large bay window was built on the front of the left-hand room. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Symmetrical south front. C19 12-pane sashes with red brick jambs and panelled stone lintels, second floor centre lintel inscribed R.C.1837 .Central doorway with flush-panel double-doors and porch with Corinthian columns, pilasters and entablature with a balustrade above. Left [west] side, wing to left with plank door, wooden porch and casement windows. Rear [north] gable-ended wing to right and rendered 2-storey outshut to left with casement windows and lean-to slate roof INTERIOR: Much of the original interior joinery survives, including flush-panelled and reeded doors, panelled window shutters and an open-well staircase rising the full height of the house with turned newels and stick balusters.

Listing NGR: SU3982998214

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558714

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)