Description

BECKFORD ROAD
North side)

No. 4 Beckford
(Formerly Listed as:
BECKFORD ROAD Beckford)

05/08/75 II

Detached Italianate villa on a site that slopes away to the rear. c1848. Possibly by H.E Goodridge.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, shallow-pitched slate roofs with wide bracketed eaves and four ornate moulded stacks to the returns with modillion cornices to three cylindrical fluted shafts.
PLAN: Double-plan with a gabled forward wing to the left and rear.
EXTERIOR: Two storeys and lower ground floor. Four/four pane tripartite windows in raised surrounds to the first floor, that to the first floor left wing, under the gable, has a pediment on cornices over a single storey canted bay with a pierced stone parapet forming a balcony to the first floor window. Cornices on tall consoles, semicircular arches, moulded sills, margin panes and horizontal glazing bars to two/three pane sash windows to the ground floor, one to each side and two to the front of the bay and three to the set back right hand range with a similar flat balcony. The moulded coping and the ground floor cornice of the bays extend as string courses and encircle the building. A rectangular single storey porch to the centre of the left return between the external stacks with a window above, is similar to the canted bay with blind balustrades below fixed four pane windows, semicircular arches to the front and over the fanlight and four panel door.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
HISTORY: A restrained Italianate villa of some quality, possibly designed by the leading practitioner of the type. A drawing for the house among the Bathwick estate papers at Raby Castle of c1848 shows that it has always borne this name.

Listing NGR: ST7575065450

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26673517

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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