Description

WESTON PARK EAST
656-1/28/1866 (East side)
Weston Hill
05/08/75

GV II

Detached house. Dated 1852.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, steep slate roof, flat lead to the centre and hexagonal moulded stacks to the rear.
EXTERIOR: Asymmetrical 'Jacobethan' house of two storeys and attic; three-bay front. A returned cornice follows the contours of the facade around a canted bay to the right, forming an eaves cornice over the central range and rising to form a hood-mould over a tall lancet window to the left where a ground floor plat-band forms a sill band. Two stepped forward forward-facing shaped gables have semicircular heads and pendants to former finials. That to the right is larger with narrow paired two/two-pane sash windows to the attic in a raised surround with a shield in a pediment similar to the gable above. A two-storey canted bay has similar paired first floor windows and a shield on the gabled parapet; ground floor windows are transomed. The left hand gable has a slit to the attic, tall lancet window to the first floor and a two-light ground floor window. A moulded string course between the gables forms an eaves cornice to the central range over a three-light stone-mullioned window with a Jacobean scroll and dated shield above a cornice on brackets. An enclosed porch has a shaped gable, double one-panel doors, a plain fanlight and a huge pyramidal keystone to a semicircular arch. The right return has a Jacobean scroll to the centre of the eaves over a two-light first floor window with a similar scrolled pediment to the at the front and a ground floor window similar to that at the front of the canted bay.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
A highly characteristic early Victorian suburban house, designed in a picturesque historicist style, reminiscent of the work of James Wilson.

Listing NGR: ST7350165896

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26688973

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Recommended Books

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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)