Description

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TQ42NE
19/800

WELL
DUDDLESWELL
The Doves Nest

(Formerly listed as The Crow's Nest, DUDDLES WELL, prevously listed as The Crow's Nest, GORSEY DOWN, BUXTED)

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Built in 1904 by M H Baillie Scott and originally called Bregnehueset. Probably built for Simmons family. A symmetrical plan. Two storeys rendered with tiled roof. Casement windows. The street elevation has three 'en suite' gables visually linked by an outcurve of one corner which also acts as a buttress and supports the diagonally placed roof above the entrance porch. The principal or garden elevation of four bays has two projecting gabled wings enclosing a curved sun terrace. There is a corner conical shaped ground floor projection to encompass a sitting room window seat and doorcase with a curved pediment containing a glass and enamelled has relief said to be by Burne Jones.

The interior contains a lounge hall with three-quarter panelling and some inlaid work to fireplace surround, a drawing room with copper hood to fireplace flanked by inglenook seats, bookcases and stained glass windows, a dining room with three-quarter wooden panelling and fireplace with copper hood and principal bedroom with barred vaulted ceiling and 15 foot wide inglenook with benches, cabinets and bookcases.

Listing NGR: TQ4760428762

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26279564

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)