Description

HEATH

SO58NE Heath House
482-1/1/138
15/03/74

GV II

Farmhouse. Early C19 remodelling of earlier core. Rendered
west facade; stone rubble. Hipped slate roof with deep eaves.
Integral brick eaves stacks. Double pile plan.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. West facade to garden is 3-window range
with centre bay slightly advanced with thermal window in
ashlar surround over a ground-level hipped canted bay with
glazed doorway and top light, both with perimeter glazing.
Second floor has a blocked mullioned 3-panel window surround
with supporting bracket scrolls to each jamb. Side bays have
single 2/2 sash to ground and first floors, and
horizontally-sliding sash to second floor, all with plain
ashlar surrounds. East front to farmyard: 3-window range with
central 2-storey projecting canted bay with parapet dividing
the 2 roof hips. Box gutter to ornamental downpipe hopper to
one side of bay. Central bay has tall 3-light casement flanked
by leaded 3-light casements with brick segmental arches.
Second floor has flanking windows only of leaded 3-light
casements. Ground floor has tall central glazed panelled door
flanked on each side by plain boarded door and 2-mullion and
transom window with brick segmental-arched lintel. Sides:
partly masked by ground-floor lean-to extensions each side and
with central windows with brick segmental arches now blocked
or altered.
INTERIOR: central bay to west has an early C19 helical
sandstone ashlar staircase with open risers and curved oak
handrail of composite beaded sections and hollow chamfered
cast-iron balusters. Moulded cornice, architraves, skirtings
and plain 6-panelled doors throughout ground-floor front. Rear
rooms have deeply chamfered bridging beams.

Listing NGR: SO5561085555

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26663585

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)