Description

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SO 38 NW
6/120

LYDBURY NORTH CP
LYDBURY NORTH,
No. 23 (Tudor Cottage) and No. 24 (Gravenor House)

(Formerly listed as No. 23 (Tudor Cottage) and No. 24, previously listed as The Old Workhouse)

1/12/51

GV

II
House, latterly workhouse, now two houses. Late C16 with C19 partial refacing and C20 additions to left and rear. Timber-framed, partly rendered, C19 painted coursed limestone refacing to left, and graded slate roof. Possibly former open hall of two framed bays to left with two framed bay gabled cross wing projecting to right.

Framing: square panels, four up to wall plate; cross wing with jettied first floor resting on end brackets; decorative herringbone framing in first floor and in gable, refaced with planted timbers in the C20. Two storeys. Central rendered ridge stack. C20 metal casements, one two-light on each floor to left and one three-light on each floor of cross wing. Four steps up to boarded door in angle of cross wing with C19 hipped slate-roofed timber porch. One storey lean-to to left. Entrance to No. 24 (Gravenor House) at rear.

Listing NGR: SO3500486079

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26306212

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)