Description

MODBURY BROWNSTON STREET
SX 6451-6551
(east side)
7/104
No 45 (Brick House) with
garden boundary wall

GV II

Narrow frontage house on corner. Early C19. Flemish bond brickwork, some slate
hanging, slate roof. Narrow building but with deep back wing, possibly at some
stage in industrial use. Street front is 3 storeys, 1 window; full height
canted bay to flat roof, sashes, with glazing bars to upper sash in each level,
small slated splayed spandrel at each level beneath windows; to left on 3
granite steps an early C20 part-glazed door to radial fanlight over fluted
frieze, set back in reveals and with triple-reeded pilasters to imposts and
bases. Each side of bay is a brick parapet and brick coping. Left return is
plain brick with one small casement in gable, and right return is half slate
hung, stone flush plinth, and four C20 casements set back, centre; gabled rear
wall with asbestos cement slate. Each wing is 3 storeys, 2 windows; left is
4-light wood casement above a 3-light with hexagonal leading, over a 4-light
with glazing bars; to the right a door under glazed lean-to porch. At the back,
on the left side of the site, a high brick wall carries through full depth of
the site, and returns in part across its end.

Listing NGR: SX6591251752

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26595406

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)