Description

SU 71 SW ROWLANDS CASTLE MANOR LODGE ROAD

1067/9/10006 Autumn House Woodlands

II

Rectory, now two private houses. Circa 1838, remodelled circa mid C19. Flint with buff-coloured brick dressings. Slate roof with gabled ends, those to west with ornate bargeboards. Brick axial and gable-end stacks with grouped polygonal shafts. PLAN: 2-room plan front range to east [Autumn House] with central entrance, and wing to west, the west end of which is now separate house [Woodlands]. Tudor Gothic style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Almost symmetrical 3-bay SE front, the windows and central doorway disposed to the right; sash windows with margin panes, ground floor right with arched glazing bars, chamfered brick openings with hoodmoulds, central entrance with large canted brick porch with 4-centred arch and deep moulded cornice. 4-bay SW elevation, gabled to left and right, the right with large stuccoed canted bay window with margin pane sashes and moulded cornice, the left with large stone 2-storey canted bay with 4-centred arch lights, smaller gable to left of centre and recess to right of centre with C20 conservatory. INTERIOR: Drawing room and dining room of Autumn House linked by ornate Gothic stone arches with pierced spandrels, either side of chimney stack, which has back-to-back fireplaces, each with stone chimneypiece with frieze of shields. Moulded plaster ceiling cornices and panelled window shutters. NOTE: This was the rectory of St John the Baptist Church, which was built in 1838, to the designs of Jacob or T.E. Owen, and remodelled in 1853.

Listing NGR: SU7290612257

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26284836

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)