Description

ROTHWELL DESBOROUGH ROAD SP 8081- 8181 9/67 Nos 3 and 3A 12.6.50 (The Nunnery) GV II Farmhouse, now 2 houses. 1660. Coursed and squared ironstone with limestone and brick dressings, plain tile and thatched roofs. Rubble plinth, off-centre coped stone ridge stack, brick ridge stack, and stone gable stack rebuilt in brick. 2 storeys, 4 bays, single range. Street front has a central narrow gabled 2-storey porch with moulded Tudor arched doorcase and recessed Tudor arched jambs with decorated spandrels and C17 plank door. Above the door, a lozenge shaped datestone inscribed'J T B 1660'. Above again, a stepped head 3-light mullioned casement. To the left of the door, a 4-light and a 2-light casement, mid C20. To the right, two 3-light transomed steel framed casements. Beyond, a blocked window and below it, a cellar opening. Above, to the left, a 3-light casement, and to the right two 3-light casements with eyebrow dormers. All these openings have wooden lintels. Rear has a near-central semi-circular thatched projection, flanked by C20 single storey additions with corrugated sheet roofs. Beyond, to the right, remains of 2 mullioned casements.

Listing NGR: SP8140781263

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Recommended Books

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (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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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)