Description

THE AVENUE, Combe Down
656-1/66/2011 (West side)
Isabella House
05/08/75

GV II

House, with offices and shop. c1840 with late C19 additions.
MATERIALS: Ashlar, slate roofs.
EXTERIOR: Compact three-storey front block with low wing attached to left, and large rear wing to right. Three bay front is typically late Georgian style, but wing is in High Victorian classical style. Three windows, grouped two and one, all plain sashes in stopped-chamfer reveals, paired sash to right at first floor. Five-panel door with cornice on carved consoles, between bays one and two, incorporating carved date, C20 shopfront to right. Coved cornice, blocking course and parapet. Single storey wing to left has four sashes in moulded architraves and panelled door in architrave with moulded pediment. Moulded cornice, with blocking course incorporating balusters in sections above windows, and whole abutting flank of No.79, Church Road (qv). Long return to right has two:three:two windows, sashes with lower half plain and upper with bars, to shouldered lintels and splayed flush sills, between bays one and two are round arches with flush keystone, at each level, and under flush gable, at ground floor with pair of plank doors, and blind to first and second floors. To right eaves stack with gable. Gable end return similarly detailed.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.

Listing NGR: ST7593362343

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26674336

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Recommended Books

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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)