Description

COSTOCK NOTTINGHAM ROAD
SK 52 NE
(east side)
5/7 Highfields
2.5.86
II
Dower house, now house. 1729 with early C20 and c.1985
alterations. Designed by and built for Sir Thomas Parkyns of
Bunny Hall. In the main red brick stretchers with blue brick
headers, some yellow brick and rubble with ashlar dressings.
Concrete pantile bell canted mansard C20 roof. 2 lateral and
single ridge red brick stacks. Each corner of the house with
clasping buttresses. Those to the front/south set on a rubble
and chamfered ashlar plinth, of 2 stages with moulded ashlar band
having chamfered ashlar quoins below the band and being panelled
above, the panelling forming pilasters with moulded ashlar
capitals. The buttresses to the rear lacking quoins. First
floor band broken by the buttresses. 2 storey, 3 bay south
front. Single C20 tripartite cross casement. To the left is a
C20 2 bay lean-to with large C20 openings. Above are 2 similar
casements with single central similar smaller casement, windows
under segmental arches. Left/west front of 5 bays. 3 similar
casements, to the right is a doorway and further right a single
similar casement. Above are 5 similar smaller casements. All
casements under segmental arches. The right/east front withn
round arched blocked or part blocked window openings with ashlar
keystones, and now with C20 casements. Rear has on the first
floor 2 round arched part blocked openings with ashlar keystones
and imposts and now with C20 casements. Under the eaves in blue
brick is the inscription "Sir T. Parkyns A.D. 1729". Highfields
was the dower house to Bunny Hall.

Listing NGR: SK5858227473

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26551311

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Recommended Books

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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)