Description

SP 03 SW WINCHCOMBE GRETTON FIELD,
GRETTON
1/110
Glenbrook
-
- II

Detached house dated 1849. Hard red brick with some embellishment from
blue headers, roof with plain and fish-scale tiles and decorative tile
cresting, richly decorated fretwork barge boards. A compact but richly
modelled Victorian Gothic villa with two principal and two lesser gables
to main front and two gables on right return, gable stacks with moulded
shafts. Two storeys, four-windowed, 2 and 3-light ovolo mould mullioned
casements in flush stone surrounds with alternating quoins and some with
transome, central plank door in 4-centred arch and set in gabled porch
with decorative barge board. Oriel on brackets on return, right. In
the right hand gable first floor front a sunk stone panel with date.
Reputed to have been built by a Rector of Alderton, this building is
externally quite unspoiled and has craftsmanship and decoration of a high
standard.

Listing NGR: SP0023831943

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26624465

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Recommended Books

• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey