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SU6894
6/188

WATLINGTON
HIGH STREET (south side)
No.7 (High Street House)

(Formerly listed as High Street House)

18/07/63

GV
II*
Town house. c.1720-30. Grey brick with red brick dressings; ground floor rebuilt in late C19 brick; roof not visible; moulded brick rear lateral and end stacks. Double-depth plan. Early Georgian style.

Three storeys. Five window range. Fine doorcase with fluted pilasters, pulvinated frieze and segmental pediment: five-panelled door. Bold coving over ground-floor sashes with late C19 red brick aprons. Gauged brick segmental arches over other C18 sashes. Red brick moulded string courses; gauged red brick pilasters to sides have moulded entablatures meeting cornices beneath parapet. Early C18 two-storey rear wing of chequer brick with raised storey band, gabled old tile roof, and canted bay with sashes to rear: adjoins stair turret to left and similar wing to right which has four-panelled door with overlight and mid C18 wing (with mid C19 sashes) to rear.

Interior: C18 and C19 panelled doors. Ground-floor has chamfered and ogee-stopped beams, and early C18 fireplace to left; mid C18 panelled room to rear left; hall to rear right has early and mid C18 panelling, and dog-leg with landing staircase with barley-sugar balusters on closed string; panelled dado. First floor has bolection-panelled room to right and straight-cut panelled room with bolection-moulded overmantle to left. Second floor has panelled landing and mid C18 panelled rooms with stone fireplaces to left and right.

(Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.830).

Listing NGR: SU6892394507

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26573803

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (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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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)