Description

SE30NW
4/47

BARNSLEY
NEVILLE AVENUE (east side),
Kendray

Park House

II

Large detached house. Circa 1780 for Thomas Taylor (1737-1807), with mid C19
additions. Ashlar. Welsh slate roof. 3 storeys. Symmetrical 5-bay facade.
Quoins. Ground floor: C19 Doric portico (glazed) flanked by large 3-light
canted bays under common entablature with blocking course. lst-floor windows
in raised surround with later casements. The central window is taller with
moulded architrave, pulvinated frieze and triangular pediment. Deep band between
1st and 2nd floors. Smaller 2nd-floor windows in raised surround with similar
casements. Moulded gutter brackets. Tall ashlar stacks with cornice to central
well of hipped roof. Rear: Venetian stair window between 2 slightly later
2-storey additions, that to right with later flat roof. Two-bay side elevations
with some blind windows. Bands between floors.

Interior: central hall leads via round-arched doorway with fanlight with radial
glazing bars, to rear dog-leg cantilevered staircase, with shaped tread soffits,
moulded ramped handrail and slender turned balusters. Fielded-panel doors and
window shutters.

Listing NGR: SE 36584 05546

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26601423

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas