Description

UPPER LANSDOWN MEWS
656-1/16/1749 No.12
05/08/75

GV II

Coach house and garden house, now dwelling. Early C19 with C20 additions.
MATERIALS: Fine and rough limestone ashlar, slate roof with stacks to gable ends.
PLAN: L-plan with projecting former coach house to right.
EXTEROR: Two storeys, four-window range. Late C19 horned two/two-pane sash windows with wire balconettes to first floor to street front, C20 door with overlight to set back ground floor right. Garden front has coped parapet and stopped cornice to first and ground floor, late C19 horned two/two-pane sash windows, two to left-of-centre and one to right-of-centre of first floor, C20 central door and C20 French windows to right.
INTERIOR: Not inspected. An example of the grander sort of mews buildings associated with the major developments of this period. Lansdown Crescent was built in 1792 to the designs of John Palmer.

Listing NGR: ST7465466075

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26674465

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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