Description

SU 42 SE OTTERBOURNE OTTERBOURNE

8/12 Otterbourne House 5/12/55 II

Small country house. Mid C18, altered C19 and converted to flats late C20. Stuccoed brick, slate roof behind parapet. Central 3 storey, 3 bay double pile block with full height bay to garden front. To each side 2 storey wing slightly set brace, of 2 C18 bays to right and 4 C19 bays to left with porch in its right bays of fluted columns. Under round-headed door and window. Single storey hip-roofed building in front of left wing with on 1st floor 2 tall openings now with casements, above low parapet. Right wing has round-headed window, and 2 openings, one blank, one with sash, above modill- ioned cornice and parapet. In main block 3 sashes on ground floor and 2 12-pane sashes on other floors with blind central opening, with shutters to all sashes. 2nd floor string course and modillioned cornice and parapet. End stacks to both piles of main block. Charlotte Yonge, authoress, was born here and lived in the house.

Listing NGR: SP4806024358

External Links

• Wikidata Q26633742

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House