Description

NORTH STREET
1. (East Side)
1483 ------------
No 16 (Berrystead)
TL 0488 1/54 18.6.55.

I GV

2.
Set back from the road with a low walled forecourt. Built circa 1700. A magnificent
house of massive proportions. 2 storeys, attics and semi-basement, ashlar, stone
slate roof double gabled. Good stone chimney stacks, triple flues, on each gable,
and 1 off centre left on forward ridge. Chamfered quoins, dentilled eaves cornice.
7 windows;- 2, 3, 2, slight central breakforward, band between the storeys. 3
dormers with shallow curved tops. Ground floor and 1st floor windows early sash
with heavy glazing bars (except 3 ground floor right of centre), wooden cases,
plain wide architraves with keystones. Central entrance approached by flight of 5 5
stone steps with wrought iron rails. Doorway moulded architrave and triangular
pediment on 2 consoles, panelled door. Six 2-light stone mullioned windows to the
basement. Good interior and garden front.

All the listed buildings on the east side of North Street form a group.

Listing NGR: TL0427888208

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17526818

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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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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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)