Description

SK 24 SW PARISH OF RODSLEY RODSLEY LANE
3/79 (East Side)
23-9-67 Rodsley House
GV II

House. Late C17 with late C18 addition and various later alterations. Box timber
framing with brick nogging and red brick with stone dressings. Plain tile roofs with
brick gable stacks, that to south external. Four bays, two southern bays C17 and
timber framed, two northern ones C18 and red brick, both two storeys, but C17 wing
much lower. Late C18 wing has a rendered plinth, painted stone sill bands to ground
and first floor, a vernacular variant of a modillioned cornice and stone coped gables.
The doorcase is moulded with a fluted and roundelled entablature, below is a raised
and fielded panelled door and a divided overlight. To north is a glazing bar sash
under wedge lintel with incised voussoirs, and double keystone . Two similar windows
above. C17 wing to south has two C19 casement windows to ground floor. Above,the
eaves have been raised and two casements inserted. The interior of this section has
large inglenook fireplace with chamfered bressumer, original wattle and daub infill
panels to partition and large oak floorboards below later boards. The interior of the
C18 wing has several interesting features, including C18 Adam style fireplaces to
ground and first floor rooms, that to ground floor flanked by ogee headed panelled cup-
boards, decorated with swags. Also an C18 stick baluster staircase with moulded
mahogany handrail, fine acanthus leaf or moulded cornices to both rooms and a stone
flagged hall.

Listing NGR: SK2018440253

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26403456

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Recommended Books

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)