Description

SU 8446 NE 5/65
SU 8446 NE 6/65
26.4.50
1099

DOWNING STREET
(West side)
No 4

GV
II*

C18. 3 storey. Brick on chamfered plinth. Strings at 1st and 2nd floor levels. Moulded wood cornice with pairs of cut brackets. Hipped slate roof. 5 tall windows to upper floors 4 similar windows on ground floor and central 6-panle door under laterr Greek Doric porch (wood) of 2 wall pilasters, fluted columns, entablature with modillioned cornice and blocking cornice. 3 moulded stone steps, curving out to bottom step with curved ends. Flanking 2 storey wings, set back, each with one window on 1st floor. Left hand with half glazed door and 6-pane rectangular fanlight on ground floor and right hand with later wood porch extension 2 windows and central glazed door, framed with pilasters and entablature, now boxed in by wooden boarding. Good cast lead R.W. Heads on return angles of centre block, with angel head ornament. Illustrated in Country Life July 10 1942, plates 6 and 7.

Nos 2, 3 and 4 and wall to No 4 form a group with the listed buildings in Lower Church Lane (South Side) and should be considered in relation to the latter.

Listing NGR: SU8399746654

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17548934

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Recommended Books

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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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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (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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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)