Description

TL 2696 WHITTLESEY CHURCH STREET
(East Side)

21/72 No. 49 (Park House)
20.2.80

GV II

House c1760-70, restored c1984. Narrow gault brick, English bond, with red
brick quoins and flat window arches. Steeply pitched tiled roof with tumbled
gable end parapets, repaired coping and symmetrical end stacks. L-plan. Two
storeys. Symmetrical elevation of three hung sashes in original openings at
first floor. Two c1984 tripartite hung sashes in enlarged openings. The red
brick arches have been rendered at both ground and first floors. Three steps
up to central doorway with late C18 doorcase. Panelled reveals and cornice
on enriched console brackets. Raised and fielded panelled door. Rear range
of similar brick except where restored and renovated. Roof raised. Two
storeys. Inside: c1770 open string staircase of two flights and landing
with moulded rail, curtail, enriched scroll tread ends and two balusters to
each tread. Each baluster composed of a vase and a Doric column. Larger
Doric columns to the newels. Opposing front and rear doorways. Two internal
doorways have segmental arches to half glazed doors, the lower half with
raised and fielded panel. Each of the two ground floor rooms at the front
has an original fireplace surround with fluted pilasters enriched capitals
and a frieze of original applied plaster figures representing Spring and
Autumn.

Listing NGR: TL2670496981

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26521766

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)