Description

ST6347
ASHWICK CP

OAKHILL

5/18

Pondsmead

GV
II

House. 1874 by T.L. Banks for Fredrick Spencer of Oakhill Brewery. Ground floor rubble, upper floors have planted frame
with brick nogging to corner part, and incised render to upper part; tiled roofs with ashlar stacks, modillion
cornices. Domestic Revival with jettied gables; asymmetrical. 2-storeys and attics. Irregular fenestration roughly
3:1:2:2:1 windows on first floor, mostly casements with coloured glass transom lights. Salient features are oriel gable
to left, 2-irregular gables in centre with bargeboards, and corner turret to right. Doorway off-centre right with
stilted arch and enriched mouldings. Large 3-light stair windows to left of centre with c1300-style tracery in head.
Interior retains virtually complete, doors, chimney pieces, mouldings etc. of the period. Pondsmead together with its
summerhouse, lake side features and lodge is an important C19 pleasance.

Listing NGR: ST6346447204

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26628884

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Recommended Books

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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)