Description

LITTLE ABSHOT ROAD
1.
5231
(West Side)
Hook
Great Abshot House
(formerly listed under
Hook Road)
SU 5105 14/267 18.10.55.
II GV
2.
Circa 1800. North facade painted white, south facade rendered white. Hipped slate
roof. 3 storeys. 5 windows, sashes with glazing bars. North facade has semi-circular
porch with round arched doorway. 6 panelled door with semi-circular fanlight above.
Later portion to west of 2 storeys with hipped roof. 4 windows, outer 3 form canted
bay. Sashes with glazing bars. South facade of main building has a curved centre
bay extending full height of building. Interior retains a fireplace with dentil
cornice and plain pilasters. Staircase with 2 straight balusters on each step,
carved brackets to treads, moulded string and ramped and scrolled handrail. Modern
brick extensions to west.
Great Abshot House and its Stables form a group with the barn at Great Abshot Farm
and with Little Abshot Farmhouse. (The barn at Great Abshot Farm is a building
of local interest).

Listing NGR: SU5172805686

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26386557

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Recommended Books

• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
• 
  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)