Description

SP 81 NE WINGRAVE WITH ROWSHAM RECREATION GROUND

8/144 Nos. 6 and 7

GV II

Pair of houses. Dated H de R 1876 on plaque. Red brick with half-timbering and patterned tile-hanging to first floor. Tiled roof with some fishscale patterning, 3 brick chimneys with pilasters. 2 storeys, 2 asymmetrical bays to N. C20 casements in original openings. Right bay is gabled and projecting and has jettied first floor with coved overhang and oriel window with coved base. Half-glazed door in left return wall has tiled lean-to hood on brackets. Left bay has smaller gable. W. side has gabled bay to left with first floor and oriel window jettied on brackets, and altered lean-to, formerly a porch with turned wooden balusters to right. Hipped dormer window above porch. Extended to S. and W. C20. Similar to Nos. 22 and 24 Leighton Road. Part of a group of picturesque estate cottages built for Hannah de Rothschild in style influenced by work of George Devey at Ascott.

Listing NGR: SP8688218897

External Links

• Wikidata Q26606201

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)