Description

SJ7548
1580/10/10003

BETLEY
MAIN ROAD
Abrahams House and Rose View with adjoining plinth and gate piers

12-FEB-01

GV
II

Pair of estate cottages. Dated 1879. By Robert Griffiths for Thomas Fletcher Twemlow. Red brick, with blue brick and ashlar dressings, and steep pitched gabled and hipped plain tile roofs. Prominent side wall and ridge stacks with coped square flues set diagonally. Plinth, flush brick quoins, first floor band, dentillated eaves. Windows are mainly original wooden casements and sashes.

Frontage has a central three-light cross casement, and above it, a gabled through-eaves dormer with a two-light casement. To left, a hipped bay, two storeys, with a door flanked by cross casements. Above, three two-light casements. To right, a slightly projecting gabled bay with a three-light cross casement, and above, a two-light casement. In the gable, a datestone inscribed "TFT 1879". Setback bay to right has recessed doorway. Left return has hooded porch with half-glazed door, flanked by buttress and side wall stack. Two-light casement above. Right return has single sash to ground floor, and two sashes above.

Rear has projecting gabled bay to right. In the centre, a three-light cross casement, flanked on each side by a door and a cross casement. These are covered by late C20 conservatories. Above, to left, a large gabled through-eaves dormer with four lights divided by brick mullions. To right, a two-light casement.

INTERIORS: Abrahams' House has cornices to principal rooms, and original four-panel doors. Original stone fireplace with mantel shelf on brackets and register grate. Adam-style fireplace probably inserted. Straight stair and landing with stick balusters. Rose View has cornices to principal rooms and some original four-panel doors. Corner fireplace to ground floor, and original grate in similar fireplace to first floor. Winder stair with stick balusters. Both houses retain their original plan.

OUTSIDE: Chamfered blue brick plinth across the full width of the frontage, returned at the right end. Two pairs of square brick gatepiers with pyramidal stone caps. Similar single pier to left.

Listing NGR: SJ7539448506

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561186

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014