Description

SNAITH AND COWICK GOOLE ROAD
SE 62 SW
(north side)
Snaith
2/55 Eastfield House
GV II
House. c1840 for Mrs Shearburn. Grey brick in Flemish bond with sandstone
ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. Double-depth plan with 2-room central
entrance-hall south front and wing to rear right. 2 storeys, 3 bays;
symmetrical. Plinth. Tuscan porch with attached columns carrying
entablature with hood over panelled door and plain overlight in reveal,
flanked by 12-pane sashes with margin lights in wooden architraves and
reveals with sills and channelled and keyed wedge lintels. First-floor sill
band. Similar, smaller first-floor sashes. Moulded wooden eaves board,
bracketed eaves. Double-span hipped roof. End stacks with ashlar coping
and square pots. Interior: hall has foliate relief to dado, moulded cornice
with gapevine frieze, moulded arch on head-corbels; similar arch to upper
hall; open well staircase with ramped handrail and drop-on-vase balusters;
moulded cornices and warble chimney-pieces to wain rooms; pair of keyed
elliptical arched alcoves to rear right. One of the series of mid-C19
suburban villas built at Snaith for the Shearburn family.

Listing NGR: SE6479721949

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26397352

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)