Description

MODBURY BROWNSTON STREET
SX 6451-6551
(east side)
7/108
Kingsland
26.1.67
GV II

Former Philosophical Institute, now house. 1840. Smooth rendered, slate roof.
Set well back from road, on a high rubble plinth to the right side because of
slope in land. Front is 2 storeys with pediment, 3 bays; ground floor has
2-light casements with horizontal bars and segmental heads set in sunk panels to
segmental heads in grooved rustication and keystones, flanking heavy Ledolcian
Doric portico with plain frieze and architrave; above a plain string three
2-light casements with transom and horizontal bars are framed by 4 Ionic columns
carrying entablature and pediment. Right return wall is lofty, with 3-bay
frontispiece to tripartite blocking, centre 2-light casement, otherwise blank.
Back is hipped down and has two 16-pane sashes flanking a trompe l'oeil panel,
with a small added lean-to. Large stacks centre to left and right flanks.
Built as group with adjacent pair of houses.

Listing NGR: SX6591051696

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26401847

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Recommended Books

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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)