Description

STEEPLE ASTON NORTH SIDE
SP4725 (South side)
9/117 Cedar Lodge
GV II

Substantial house. Possibly originally mid C18, re-modelled late C18 and
extended C19. Limestone and marlstone rubble with some wooden lintels;
Stonesfield-slate and Welsh-slate roofs with brick stacks. Double-depth plan
with service ranges. 2 storeys plus attic. Entrance front has a symmetrical
window arrangement of 16-pane sashes with brick jambs and wooden lintels, and
has a central 6-panel door with marlstone jambs and a C18 flat canopy with
panelled soffit and shaped brackets, to extreme right a rubble projection with a
similar window has been added, probably to contain a stair. Symmetrical 3-window
garden front, stuccoed over limestone rubble, has a more elaborate entrance
canopy with dentil decoration below round window; outer bays have architraved
tripartite sashes. Two-span roof has end stacks in both sections but is of
unequal spans. A late-C18/early-C19 hipped-roofed Welsh-slated range, running at
right angles to the house, has a 3-window front with leaded 2-liqht casements at
first floor, and lower windows with ornamental cast-iron grilles flanking the
6-panel door; it has been joined to the right end of the main range by a C19
marlstone linking section, altered C20. Interior: some late-C18 panelled doors
and shutters. For many years the hone of the novelist, Iris Murdoch.
(VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol XI, p23)

Listing NGR: SP4746625974

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26519984

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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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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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)