Description

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TL 4557 17/57
942
26.4.50

HILLS ROAD
(West Side)
No 2 (Wanstead House)


GV II*

Circa 1825. 2 storeys; gault brick; plaster dressings; hipped slate roof;
symmetrically designed front with dentilled and modillioned caves-cornice;
3 windows, moulded architraves, glazing bars; central doorway with eared
architrave, swags on frieze above, flanking fluted Corinthian columns with
entablature with pulvinated frieze and dentilled cornice. Particularly im-
portant for the inclusion of features from Colen Campbell's 1st major work,
Wanstead House in Essex (1715-21) demolished in 1824. The entrance doorcase
as described above; other doorcases, window architraves, panelling and
plasterwork. The dining-room is particularly rich in these fittings. Also
marble fireplaces and fine wrought-iron balustrade to the staircase. Also
some good fittings of 1825. (RCHM 279).
Nos 2 to 22 (even) form a group.

Listing NGR: TL4553657679

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17543208

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]