Description

FORTON
SD 45 SE
1/87 The Gables, Jackson Hill
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GV II

House, mid-to-late C18 with C17 remains and C20 alterations. Pebbledashed
rubble with sandstone dressings and slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Windows
sashed with glazing bars and plain stone surrounds. Door, in central bay,
has stone surround with cornice hood and is flanked by lights (probably a
C20 alteration) which have sashes with glazing bars. Chimneys on gables,
to left of door, and to left of right-hand bay. Right-hand chimney cap has
weathered offset and moulded cornice. Inside, the left-hand room has 2
axial moulded beams of C17 type, both of which have scarf joints near the
gable wall. These may remain from a C17 house and may have been scarfed
when a firehood bressumer was removed. The entrance hall has one chamfered
and one moulded beam.

Listing NGR: SD4809350398

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26457073

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Recommended Books

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper