Description

SK 64 NE EPPERSTONE MAIN STREET
(south side)

9/48 The Old House

G.V. II

House. Mid C18 and mid C19. Red brick, ashlar. Plain tile
roofs. C18 range of red brick with left gable and single C19
ridge stacks. Brick coped gable with kneeler. Dogtooth eaves.
2 storeys plus garret, 3 bays. First floor band. Central
doorway with glazed and panelled double door. Either side are
single glazing bar sashes. 3 similar sashes above. To the left,
set back, is a C19 red brick and slate single storey, 2 bay wing.
Set on a plinth with left external gable stack and 2 glazing bar
sashes. To the right and projecting is the C19 red brick wing
with ashlar dressings and single red brick stacks to the rear and
external right. Decorative ridge. Ashlar coped gable with
finial. Set on a plinth with moulded ashlar band over. 2
storeys plus garret, single bay. 2 storey canted bay with lead
roof and raised brick eaves. Central doorway, 3 steps up, with
glazed double door and overlight. Either side are single fixed
lights with overlights. Above single central sash flanked by
single smaller sashes. Chamfered ashlar sills and lintels. In
the apex is a single trefoil fixed light in ashlar surround.
Right/east front with moulded eaves band has from left to right a
single arched fixed light, the external stack, a single arched
fixed light set into an arched recess, a single glazing bar
casement and a single pair of trefoil arched lights in flush
ashlar quoin surround. Above is a single similar trefoil arched
light and surround, to the right, over the arch, is a single
gabled half dormer with single arched sash. Rear/entrance front
has 2 trefoil arched lights in flush ashlar quoin surrounds. to
the left is a single diagonal buttress and to the right the
gabled and coped porch with moulded arched entrance supported on
2 colonnettes with foliate decorated capitals, hood mould and
decorative label stops. Inner pointed arched doorway with
panelled door and flush ashlar quoin surround. Over is a single
tripartite cross casement, lights over the transom being trefoil
arched, in flush ashlar quoin surround. In the garret is a
single decorative quatrefoil fixed light in ashlar surround. The
wing to the right set back, has a single pair of trefoil arched
lights on each floor in flush ashlar quoin surrounds. That on
the first floor being a half dormer. Further right are various
C19 wings.

Listing NGR: SK6544348323

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26297641

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Recommended Books

• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings