Description

SX 9292 SW MELBOURNE PLACE
871/6/10073 (West side)
23-JUN-00 Friars Lodge

II

Large house divided into flats. c.1830s with later alterations. Mass wall construction, stuccoed and painted; slate roof; stacks with rendered shafts with bands.
Plan: Large rectangular block with entrance on the W side with stair beyond and service block to rear.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-bay front with front door to left. Deep moulded cornice and eavesband below parapet. Steps up to pilastered doorcase with entablature and cornice; doorcase with panelled reveals. Windows have moulded architraves and are glazed with 12-pane hornless sashes; 2 windows to ground floor; 3 windows to first floor, the centre window blocked. The right return preserves 2 first and 2 ground floor similar windows plus two small C20 windows. The end of the service block at the right end has no parapet and a hipped slate roof and had 12-pane hornless sashes.
INTERIOR: partially inspected. Original staircase survives with stick balusters and mahogany handrail; ground floor shutters survive and there may be other features of interest.
Group value in an area of mixed high quality and modest housing of the first half of the C19.

Listing NGR: SX9224492047

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660867

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]