Description

TM 0475
6/33

BOTESDALE
THE STREET, CROWN HILL
(SOUTH EAST SIDE)
Crownleigh House

GV
II

House. c.1600, extended early C18, refronted mid C19. Timber frame, red
brick front with white brick dressings, plastered to rear. Steeply pitched
pantiled roof. 5 bay 3 cell lobby entry plan. 2 storeys. Ground floor:
steps up to a recessed part glazed, part raised and part fielded 6 panelled
door to right of centre, recessed glazing bar sashes. First floor 3:3 pane
sashes. All openings have cambered heads. Axial ridge stack to right of
centre. Right bay part built over earlier end bay of Oakdene (q.v.). To rear
right an C18 gabled bay with part opening metal frame casements, external
stack to rear. To rear centre a boarded door and an C18 thick glazing bar
sash window. Interior: stop chamfered cross axial binding beam, jowled storey
posts, newel stair behind stack. First floor: main chamber to left has
crossed runout ovolo moulded binding beams with a central Tudor rose boss,
cavetto and ovolo moulded heavy plaster cornice; chamfered jowled posts with
rebated section and a stop chamfered axial binding beam to right. Cambered
collars and halved principals clasp purlins, cranked arched windbraces.

Listing NGR: TM0481275865

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26566996

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