Description

NZ 11 SW OVINGTON OVINGTON VILLAGE
(West end)

7/117 Ovington Hall and
30.7.87 adjacent cottage

GV II

House and cottage. Probably C17, extended and altered in C18. Rubble with
cut dressings, partly rendered; graduated stone slate roofs. Plan: original
house has east range incorporating cottage, two rear wings and ballroom
extension to north-west.

South front in two sections: 2 storeys, 2 + 4 bays. 2-bay rendered left
part is original house: central half-glazed door with 3-pane overlight in
raised tooled stone surround with ashlar panel over; 4-pane sash windows.
Steeply-pitched roof with coped gables on moulded kneelers and end stacks,
left stepped-and-corniced, right rebuilt in grey brick on old base. Right
part irregular. C20 French window and doorway, boarded door at right end
and 12-pane sashes in stone surrounds, some renewed. Coped right gable on
moulded kneelers, with end stack; stepped-and-corniced ridge stack.

Rear: Original house has two wings with stacks on gables. Earlier right
wing has fielded-panel door and sash windows in raised stone surrounds.
Added right ballroom extension with a single tall 24-pane sash in a similar
surround, and coped left gable on moulded kneelers, with end stack.

Interior: original house has heavy transverse ceiling beams. Ballroom has
basket-arched proscenium with Greek key frieze and imposts with paterae,
contemporary chimneypiece, folding fielded-panel shutters on butterfly hinges,
cornice with egg-and-dart, and ornamental ceiling rose.

Roof structure not seen, and may be of interest.

Listing NGR: NZ1298314694

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26414827

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)