Description

SU 53 NE CANDOVER BROWN CANDOVER
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26.4.57 Robey's Farmhouse

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Early C18, early C19, and later. L-shaped house with 2 symmetrical facades to the outer elevations. Two storeys and attic. The south-east front has 5 windows; an old hipped tile roof has a coved plaster eaves. The walling is in flint with flush red brick dressings; strings at levels of the eaves fascia, first floor cills, ground-floor cill (with plinth set-off), with rusticated quoins to all openings tiled to the strings, rubbed flat arches below the first floor band. Upper windows are 2-light casements the lower are Victorian sashes. A brick porch has side windows, a plain cambered opening, a coping stone to a low pitched gable finishing as horizontals above the sides, which have impost bands and recessed panels, and plinth; the roofing is slate, the 4-glazed door is set in a solid frame. The north east elevation is wider also of 5 windows, having the same wall and roof treatment (with one hipped roofed dormer at the second bay), a 6-panelled (2 top glazed) door under a flat canopy, and a flight of steps the basement windows have panels beneath the openings and 2 ground floor
windows on the north side have raised cills. The west wall has been altered and merges with the later structure, built into the angles.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26623737

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Recommended Books

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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy