Description

SOUTH STREET
1.
1625
(North-East Side)
Duck House including
garden wall and
railings
ST 6316 1/221
II GV
2.
Early to mid C19. High 2 storey 3 window ashlar front at right angles
to road. Wide eaves soffit with paired brackets above pilasters. One
central dormer. Sash windows to 1st floor. Central round-headed doorway
with reeded imposts, fanlight. Ground floor windows are large Venetian
sashes set in sunk etched panels. Incised decoration in spandrels. Fluted
pilasters strips between lights and fluted archivolt. A wall of rough
ashlar and dwarf wall and railings enclose the garden to the south east
of the house. A short length of wall is attached to the left angle of
the house; beyond it is a gate flanked by a pier; to south-east again is
a stone dwarf wall with ashlar coping. Railings have uprights with spear-headed
finials and panelled standards at intervals. Probably contemporary with
the house.

Nos 1 to 8 (consec), Duck House including garden wall and railings, Gainsborough
House including Dwarf wall, railings and gate, outbuilding to south of
Gainsborough House, gate piers to the Old Bidewell, The Antique Shop, Lodbourne
Hall, Ye Olde Cottage including garden walls and railings form a group.

Listing NGR: ST6397116381

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26591587

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Recommended Books

• 
  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)