Description

SK 77 NW GAMSTON GREAT NORTH ROAD
(west side)

3/46 Gamston Manor and
attached cottage
28.2.52

II

House and attached cottage. C17 with late C18 additions and
alterations and C20 additions. Red brick, some ashlar. Slate
roof. Right part external gable and single ridge stacks, with a
further single stack to the gable of the left cross wing. 2
storeys plus garret, 6 bays, the left bay being gabled. Original
C17 3 bay house now heightened with remaining band of dogtooth
marking original roof line. The 2 right ground floor bays are
ashlar. To the right are 2 late C18 bays and to the left the
single gabled bay of the late C18 cross wing. Having from left
to right a single glazing bar casement under segmental arch,
doorway with panelled door, 3 pane overlight and pedimented Doric
porch, 2 large glazing bar casements with central carved ashlar
human head corbel, a single pair of glazing bar sashes under
segmental arch and a single similar sash under segmental arch.
Above are 3 glazing bar sashes in the C17 wing, to the right is a
single glazing bar sash under cambered arch and further right an
oriel window with a pair of glazing bar casements to the front
and single similar casements to the sides. In the garret of the
cross wing is a single glazing bar casement. To the right, set
back, is a brick and slate lean-to with 2 openings under
segmental arches. Attached to the rear of the C18 bays is a C18
cottage with altered openings. The 4 bay south front of the
cross wing with single ridge stack and dogtooth, raised brick and
dentil eaves bands has 4 French windows under segmental arches
with 4 glazing bar sashes under segmental arches above. There is
a single roof dormer with single tripartite glazing bar casement.
To the left and rear are C20 additions. Interior of C17 bays has
a single studded panel on the first floor. Roof with arch braced
collar truss.

Listing NGR: SK7094176233

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26518152

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Recommended Books

• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)