Description

1.
5401 MALTRAVERS STREET
(North Side)
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26.3.49. No 26 (the Vicarage).
- Stables at No 26.
TQ 0107 1/47

II*

2.
Mid C18 south front and interiors. Grey headers and red brick dressings, with
rusticated quoins. Hipped tile roof, Late C19 red brick chimneys with cornicing.
2 storeys and attics. Wooden eaves cornice with cyma recta modillions. 3 ranges
of double-hung sash windows with glazing bars. 3 attic dormers with pitched gables,
moulded wooden eaves cornices, and casement windows with glazing bars. Porch
iiLth fluted Roman Doric columns and pilasters, triglyphs with guttae, cornice
with mutules, and panelled extrados to entablature: ogival lead roof. Door with
6 fielded panels; and 3 limestone steps with moulded nosing.
North (garden) elevation is possibly C17. 2 gables surmounting outer 2 of 3 window
ranges. These 2 have 3 storeys, ground and 1st floors have bipartite segment-headed
double-hung sashes with glazing bars, 2nd floor has casements with glazing bars.
Central range has round-arched staircase window with rubbed brick voussoirs and
door with intersected Gothick glazing bars.
Interior has Chinoiserie lattice-work balustrade to staircase: handrail ramped
to newels, which are decorated with a diagonally latticed motif in relief: open
strings decorated with elaborate Rococo moulding. Stair window to rear (north):
double-hung sash with intersected Gothic glazing bars: deep reveals on inside,
embrassures have elaborate foliate moulding, and sill is supported on 2 marbled
consoles. All ground floor rooms and some upper ones have wainscotting to dado
level, moulded cornice in south-west ground floor room, with egg and dart modillions
and parterae in between, south-west 1st floor room has late C18 carved fireplace,
and Vitruvian scroll moulding to dado. Door with fielded panelling throughout.
Stables to east of No 26. Painted brick. 2 storeys. Brick modillion eaves cornice.
Pitched tile roof. 1 1st floor tripartite double-hung sash window with glazing
bars. Ground floor openings modern.

Nos 14 to 38 (even) sometimes called The Parade.

Listing NGR: TQ0164807099

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17553541

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)