Description

ST54SE PILTON CP JOHN BEALE'S HILL (West side)
PILTON VILLAGE

16/126 Beale's House

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GV II

House. C16/C17. Coursed rubble, coped verges, triple Roman tile roof, brick ridge stacks. Postulated as an open hall
house, later alterations to 3-unit and cross-passage plan with a further wing at right angles to rear. Entrance
frontage at right angles to road; single storey and attics; 3 bays, those to first floor in 3 front-facing gables with
copings and bases for finials; 2-light casements, predominantly of cast-iron, except 4-light wooden mullioned window to
right of ground floor; wooden lintol over each window opening, stopped labels. Door opening to centre in a chamfered
dressed stone surround, 6-panelled door, top 4 panels glazed. Single-storey out-shut to left return. Coursed and
squared wall at right angles to right return bounding roadside; approximately 10 m long and one m high; dressed stone
coping ramped up to each end, adjacent the house a pair of "slab" gate piers, C18 wrought-iron gate with spear capping
(VAG report, unpublished SRO, no date).

Listing NGR: ST5932740802

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26311048

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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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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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)