Description

FIGHELDEAN -
SU 14 NE
2/160 Syrencot House

II
House, now offices. 1738. Red and blue brickwork with limestone
plat band and raised quoins. Slate roof. Main block of 3
storeys, 5 x 1 bays, extended to right early C19, two storeys, 3
bays, and wing to rear. Entrance into wing at junction with main
block, under curved Tuscan portico. Main block has 12-paned sashes
with segmental heads in red brick flush quoined openings, the
arches with raised keystones and moulded stone sills. Round arched
opening to central first floor window and raised surround. Six-
paned sashes to top floor, and dentilled stone eaves. Cogged eaves
to end and rear. Right wing has margin glazed windows and hipped
roof.
Interior: Mostly altered, but south end has fielded dado panelling
and cornice. Wing has early C19 stair. The house as a military
residence of Lt Gen Browning, General Sir Richard Gale, and Lord
Allenbrooke, saw the founding of the airborne divisions, and the
planning and mounting of Operation Overlord.

Listing NGR: SU1594446124

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26478254

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Recommended Books

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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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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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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)