Description

RICHMOND PLACE
656-1/17/2456 No.57

11/08/72
(Formerly Listed as:
RICHMOND PLACE,
Beacon Hill Common Nos 1-56
(consec) & "White Shutters")
GV II

Formerly known as: White Shutters RICHMOND PLACE.
Detached house. c1830.
MATERIALS: Ashlar with Welsh slate roof; wooden glazed verandah.
PLAN: Square on plan with central stack and later ashlar wing added at left hand rear corner.
EXTERIOR: Two storeys on a tall plinth, two windows over two windows.
Ground floor has four/four sashes with louvred shutters under verandah with glazed pent roof on slim timber colonnade with ogee arched heads. Verandah fronted by plain timber balustrade.
First floor has smaller four/four sashes. Hipped roof with deep eaves, central ashlar stack with weathering and six patent pots. Rear wing has single window with four/four sashes and single pitch roof.
Rear elevation not seen.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Ashlar front wall with ball finial-topped piers; pair of wrought iron gates with three tiers of spearhead finials.
HISTORY: A transitional late Georgian villa, showing the arrival of Italianate features (i.e. the eaves) and with an unusually elaborate verandah.

Listing NGR: ST7515866255

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26673684

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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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  Sussex: West (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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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)