Description

TM 24 NW PLAYFORD GREAT BEALINGS

4/11 Playford Mount and
- Playford Grange

- II

House. 1867, by E.C. Hakewill for his own occupation. In the Victorian
Gothic style. Now subdivided into 2 dwellings. 2 storeys and attics. Red
brick with burnt headers; dressings of terracotta. Steeply-pitched slated
roofs with dormers on the garden side, capped with slated pyramids. Internal
chimneys of red brick. Sash windows, mainly single or paired, recessed within
moulded terracotta openings with trefoiled heads. 2 single-storey bay windows
have large terracotta mullioned and transomed casements. Lighting the
staircase in a high gablet is a wheel window with 8 trefoiled segments of
terracotta. Entrance porch of 2 storeys with pyramid roof; open at ground
storey, with a pointed and moulded limestone arch on circular columns with
foliate capitals. A fully-glazed conservatory attached to the east side; the
steeply-pitched roof is supported on portal frames. The section of the house
now known as Playford Grange was damaged by fire in mid C20 but retains a
gabled porte-cochere towards the road.

Listing NGR: TM2215648592

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26478257

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (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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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)