Description

WESTON ROAD
656-1/27/1870 (North side)

Briar House and Under The Hill
11/08/72

GV II

Includes: Briar House and Under The Hill WESTON PARK. Symmetrical pair of houses. c1820.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, rubblestone semi-basement, double pitched slate roof with moulded stacks to gable ends.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys and semi-basement; three-window front with a blind window to the first floor of the party wall: each house thus has a single window front. Continuous coped parapet, cornice, cornice band, second floor sill band, ground floor platband and plinth. Recessed panels to the openings. To the first floor is a balcony on brackets with a swept canopy on fine cast iron supports and railings, with strigillated decoration. The second floor has small three-pane casement windows flanking the party wall. To the ground floor centre are serpentine flights of steps leading to six-panel doors and fanlights in semicircular arches. Briar House to the right has plate glass sash windows and a plain fanlight. Under The Hill has an entrance in West Park, a three/three-pane sash window to the second floor and a nine/nine-pane sash to the first floor, a six/six-pane sash to the ground floor and radial glazing bars to the fanlight.
INTERIORS: Not inspected.
A good pair of semi-detached Late Georgian houses, possessing very fine ironwork; strigillation is a form of ornament found on Roman sarcophagi, which was also employed in a similar position on the façade of Sir John Soane's London house of 1812. 1945 photo in NMR: houses were then called 'Donnington' and 'Underhill'. Briar House, altered in 1957, was extended and part-demolished in 1975.

Listing NGR: ST7347765835

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26688990

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)