Description

ACTON SCOTT

SO48NW Castle Hill
1312-1/9/2
15/03/74
(Formerly Listed as:
Castle Hill and Old Post Office.)

II

House. C17 with C19 extensive restoration. Painted
square-panelled timber frame with painted rendered infill
panels, stone rubble rear and side extension wings. Plain-tile
roofs with pierced ornamental bargeboards and finials to
gables. 2 central profiled C19 brick ridge stacks. T-shaped
plan of main range with cross wing with end and side extension
wings.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey and single-storey plus attic. West front
with advanced gabled wing of 2 storeys to right-hand side, the
upper storey with jettied and scalloped stop-chamfered
bressumer on curved brackets and single 2-light casement
window in projecting frame with sill brackets. To left are 2
bays each with semi-dormers breaking above eaves, a canted bay
window with tiled pentice roof and doorway with gabled
weather-hood on pilaster brackets. 2-storey stone rubble bay
on left-hand side with one simple casement window. C19 leaded
lights throughout.
South side: 3 framed-bay elevation with central advanced bay
with projecting framed casement window with sill brackets
capped with gable and with framed projecting ground-floor
porch with canted lintel. One jettied bay either side, each
with projecting mullioned and transom ground-floor window and
jettied upper storey with scalloped stop-chamfered bressumer
set on console brackets. Upper storey of square-framed panels
with ornamental bracing forming lozenge patterns. 2-storey
stone rubble extension on right-hand side with C20 casement.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO4443289764

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26663161

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)