Description

SP 91 NW IVINGHOE HIGH STREET

4/68 Youth Hostel (The Old
Brewery House)

26.9.51

GV II

Youth hostel. Early C19. Red brick with a little vitreous brick,
red quoins and window surrounds. Dentilled brick cornice to central
gable and below flanking parapets. Concealed 2-span slate roofs, flanking
rendered chimneys. 3 storeys, 3 bays. Outer bays have tripartite sash
windows, those to ground floor without glazing bars. Upper floors of
centre bay have sashes with semi-circular heads, radiating glazing bars, and
painted stone impost and key-blocks. All windows have gauged brick
heads. Central half-glazed door has semi-circular fanlight with ornamental
glazing bars, panelled reveals and wooden doorcase with open dentilled
pediment on slender Doric columns. Later 2-storey extension to right
has parapet and C20 paired wooden casements. Single storey bay to far
right. Rear is similar but with straight parapet, altered double doors in
C20 porch, and tall scaircase window with semi-circular head, 'Y' tracery
and coloured marginal glazing. Interior has early C19 doors, ornamental
ceiling cornices, and staircase with plain square wooden banisters, altered
newels posts, and shaped tread ends.

Listing NGR: SP9450116125

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26454517

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Recommended Books

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)