Description

THE STRAND
1.
1577
(North Side)
No 7
(Dover House)
SZ 5992 3/323

II GV

2.
Circa 1840/50 villa. Two storeys and semi-basement, coursed rubble with
rendered quoins, first floor cornice and frieze below eaves. Recessed
entrance bay three storeys of one window to West. Low pitch hipped slate
roof with wide eaves. Three windows, recessed, sash, glazing bars intact
apart from first floor East and centre ground floor window which has been
converted to entrance. All windows have broad rendered surrounds. Enclosed
porch to entrance bay with inner Greek Doric columns and outer pilaster
flanking, frieze, cornice and blocking course over. First and second floor
windows of entrance bay are blind, first floor with architrave surround
and pediment on small brakets with shell ornament, consoles to sill. On
second floor tripartite round headed lights consoles to sill, backing up
into frieze.

North Esplanade front; six windows, one blind, three in two storeyed canted
bay, architrave surrounds, no glazing bars. Entrance bay on tower has the
tripartite second floor window unblocked this side and the first floor one
as well but without the pediment. Three windows have casements. A door
gives from one side of canted bay into garden.

Nos 1 to 7 (consec) and Nos 9 to 20 (consec) form a group.

Listing NGR: SZ5977092706

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26531657

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Recommended Books

• 
  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey