Description

BRADFORD ROAD
1
5113
(West side)
SE 1417 and SE 1517 Fartown
28/800
No 83 Hebble House including
II boundary walls in front of
GV house, gate piers and gate

2
House and attached front wall. Mid-late C19. Ashlar, Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys
with attic and cellar; 2 bays, right bay projecting slightly and gabled. Chamfered
plinth. On left, steps up to round-arched doorway which has: 4-panel door; etched
glass fanlight; architrave with pilasters on plinths and bunched flowers and foliage
as keystone; floral-decorated corbels carrying colonnettes with similarly-decorated
capitals and supporting cornice; below steps up to entrance, a board door (? to
privy). Windows are round-arched with sashes. Right hand bay has paired sashes to
ground and 1st floors, on ground floor having hollow-moulded surround with foliage
decoration: very fine elaborate, relief-carved, foliage and swan-like bird as
keystone; to front, low decorative, open-work iron rail on projecting sill supported
on corbels with lions' heads which flank a panel with more relief carving of an owl
and foxes; short corbelled, colonnettes, as at doorway, support cornice below lst-
floor window. This has: no central jamb; hoodmould with foliage-decorated stops and
keystone; to front, iron railing with maple-leaf-like finials. Single 4-pane sash
to left bay over door, similarly treated and with similar balcony. Narrow sash with
similar hoodmould to gable of right bay which has copying on moulded kneelers and
finial. Eaves cornice. Shouldered cross-ridge stack to centre, rendered. Low
front wall linked to house by side walls and another, flanking accessway to basement
door, which ramp down from house. Walls are of coursed squared stone with chamfered
ashlar coping, the link walls with simple posts carrying iron rail. In front wall,
end gateways, Left one retaining hooped and arrow-finialed iron gate, each gateway
having short, square-sectioned, chamfered ashlar piers, with ogee-moulded and
broached tots supporting domical finials, the right-hand piers engraved "HEBBLE"
"HOUSE".
The quality of decorative stonework on this building is high, and is unusual on a
house of this type.

Listing NGR: SE1447017631

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26520258

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Recommended Books

• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6