Description

SE 91 SW ROXBY CUM RISBY RISBY ROAD
(north side)

7/11 High Risby Farmhouse
(formerly listed as High
6.11.67 Risby House) )

GV II

Farmhouse. Mid C18, probably with earlier origins; C19-20 alterations.
Coursed limestone rubble with brick dressings, colourwashed. Brick stacks.
Pantile roof. Rectangular on plan: 4 rooms wide with rear outshut and
contemporary L-shaped wing to left with later outshut to front. 2 storeys,
3-bay symmetrical front with wide fourth bay to left. Single storey and
attic extension to left. Entrance in third bay: part-glazed 6-panelled door
and radial fanlight in Doric surround with pilasters supporting an open
dentilled pediment. C19 flat-roofed projecting canted bay windows to either
side with 12-pane sashes. Single 12-pane sash in flush wood surround to
left end with projecting cill and segmental brick arch. Similar sashes to
first floor. Dentilled brick eaves cornice. Axial stack to left, end stack
to right. Tumbled-in brick to gables with stone coping and shaped kneelers.
Interior: open well main staircase with ramped and wreathed handrail and
column-on-vase balusters with square knops; back staircase with moulded
handrail and wavy splat balustrade; Dining Room ground floor left has
fielded panel dado with moulded dado rail and arched alcove in architrave
with moulded ornament; Drawing Room ground floor right has early C19 moulded
cornice and beaded door architrave with floral decoration; similar
architraves to bay windows. Other original features include 3-fielded-panel
doors and window shutters. Timber board found in house inscribed
Willm Roberts Roxby
Carpenter March 17
George Ramsey
Mason Roxby 1768
probably refers to original building or major re-building work.

Listing NGR: SE9200114714

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26534622

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Recommended Books

• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)