Description

MODBURY BACK STREET
SX 6451-6551
(south side)
7/62
Billington House

- II

Detached house. Late C17 and C18, some C19 windows. Smooth rendered, asbestos-
cement slate roof, large brick stack, right, smaller stack, left gable. Plain
block, part lower than street level at west end, stair projection, gabled,
back. Two storeys and attic; ground floor, mainly below street level, has part-
glazed door incorporating radial light, under light cantilevered hood. At first
floor two 12-pane replacement sashes and a smaller single light left. At night
a panelled inner door with C20 glazed porch; on the east side this has a curved
segment of raking wall at lead-in to lower door. 12-pane raking half-dormer
centred over ground floor door. Back has gabled stair extension, to right a
16-pane raking dormer above 16-pane sash, above C20 glazed extension. Both
gables plain. Interior: Dog-leg stair with splatt balusters. Feet of large
roof principals visible, but boxed or papered. A puzzling building which may
have lost some windows to the street front.

Listing NGR: SX6568951733

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26610675

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)