Description

TICKTON ESKE
TA 04 SE
8/55 Eske Manor
6/83
- II*

House. Mid C17, with C18 and C19 rear wings. Red brick, pantiled roofs.
2 storeys, 4 bays 2:1:1, with projecting 2-storey porch, and single-bay wing
to right under pentice roof. Centre-lobby entry with through-stack passage
leading formerly to the rear stair tower, now demolished. Porch: ground
floor: 6-panel bolection-moulded door under segmental arch with moulded
imposts and projecting keyblock. Moulded first-floor band (a cavetto
moulding above a torus) with low pediment over. First floor: small 2-pane
sash under a flat gauged brick arch. Rubbed brick Lombard frieze beneath
dentilled brick cornice. To the gable is a blank opening painted in
imitation of a 2-light mullioned window, under a dentilled floating cornice.
Coped gable. The main block has paired 2-pane sashes under flat gauged
brick arches throughout: the first-floor band and eaves cornice run
continuously around the building. The axial stack has 4 linked flues: the
partly external end stacks have twin flues, diagonally set. Wing to right:
moulded band and tumbled-in brick to plain close verges. Interior: ground
floor: a passage through the thickness of the stack links the lobby to the
blocked entrance to the former rear stair tower. First floor: the room to
the left of the porch is entirely boarded out and painted in imitation of
panelling with cartouches and heraldic shields. Also painted is a fire
surround with Corinthian columns 'supporting' a pedimented overmantel.
Primary and secondary joists throughout the house have ovolo chamfers with
ogee stops.

Listing NGR: TA0573743236

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17555386

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)