Description

SP 81 NE WINGRAVE WITH ROWSHAM LEIGHTON ROAD

8/127 Nos. 26 and 28

GV II

Pair of cottages built as lodge cottages to Wingrave Manor House
(now Mount Tabor House), and symmetrical to Nos. 22 and 24. Dated
SFM 1876 on terracotta plaque. In picturesque style influenced by
work of George Devey. Red brick to ground floor, fishscale tile-
hanging and half-timbering with whitewashed rendered infill to first
floor. Tiled roof with some fishscale patterning, brick chimneys with
pilasters. 2 storeys, 2 asymmetrical bays to each front. Both bays to
N.W. are gabled the left gable larger and projecting with jettied first
floor and 3-light barred wooden casements, the upper in an oriel with
coved base and lean-to tiled roof. Blocked door in right return wall
has small tiled hood on brackets. Right bay has similar casements,
2-light to ground floor, single light above. Right side wall has
lean-to porch with heavy turned wooden balusters, hipped dormer above,
and gabled bay to right.

Listing NGR: SP8713219228

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26514250

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Recommended Books

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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6