Description

WORTON HIGH STREET
ST 95 NE
(south side)
7/355 Worton House and
The Old Coach-house
19.3.62
GV II

House, late C18, red brick with thin white joints and low pitched
slate valley roof and brick stacks. Three-storey formal north
front with full-height canted bays each side, ashlar plinth,
panelled sill-band, sill-course and modillion cornice with blocking
course. C19 plate glass sashes, 3 each floor to canted bays, one
to each floor in centre over 4-panel door in moulded arched
surround with traceried iron and cast lead fanlight framed by
engaged Roman Doric columns with entablature and pediment. Gauged
brick heads to all windows. Two-window west side with gauged brick
heads, 3-window rear with arched head to doorway. Long 2-storey
rear wing, The Old Coach-house, red brick and timber-frame with
imitation slates and various casement windows. Stable and loft at
south end. Sill plate and some wall-posts exposed to front. Said
to have been a pre-existing cottage joined to Worton House later
and extended to south. Worton House has some moulded plaster
cornices to front rooms. Said to have been built about 1789.

Listing NGR: ST9765657441

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26562434

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version