Description

5236 HIGH STREET
(North West side)

SU 7139 No 76
903/2/84 (Westbrooke House)
13.3.51 (Formerly listed as Alton
Council Offices)

II*

House, now offices. Circa early C18. Altered and enlarged at the right and rear. Main front of 3 storeys and 5 bays wide, the central one advanced somewhat. Brick; slate roof. Ground floor with central door in pedimented stone doorcase approached up modern steps and flanked on either side by 2 sash windows. 1st and 2nd floors each with 5 similar windows, the centre one on the 2nd floor with a cut brick head. Deep modillioned eaves cornice. The interior has contemporary doors and panelling and a good oak staircase with alternate fluted and twisted balusters and carved stair ends. The stairs are entered on each level beneath a depressed arch with plaster panelled soffit and jambs. Staircase ceiling boldly decorated in plaster. Seven sections of Doric frieze re-sited on walls of hall and stairs, with triglyphs and moulded trophies in the metopes, seven of the trophies represent carcass devices.

Listing NGR: SU7161239208

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17532987

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Recommended Books

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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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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)