Description

ST 55 NW BLAGDON C.P. STATION ROAD (east side)

10/41 Blagdon House

II

Detached house. C17 core with C18 and C19 alterations and additions. Squared and coursed rubble with stone copings, lias headers and C20 double Roman tile roofs. C17 rear wing with c.1740 roadside addition and further, rear, C19 additions. 2-storey, 5 window west front. All windows are C19 wooden cross- casements. Central wooden latticework porch with semi-circular head and 6-raised and fielded panel door. End brick stacks. Interior. Ground floor left hand room has raised and fielded panelling and a bolection moulded fireplace surround dating from c.1740. Contemporary staircase with wreathed pine handrail, turned balusters and carved tread ends. Beneath the staircase is a blocked 2-light chamfered mullion and further C17 evidence is the wall space of a former newel staircase in the north-east corner of the rear wing. The Rev. Augustus Toplady is stated to have lodged here.

Listing NGR: ST5023159218

External Links

• Wikidata Q26606883

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)