Description

SU 34 NW PENTON GRAFTON CLANVILLE

4/10 Clanville House
20.12.60
GV II*

Large house. Early C18, with early and mid-C19 rear additions, and C20 minor
additions at each side. Brick and tile. Wide symmetrical front (east) of
2 storeys and attic, 4 windows. Ripped roof, with 3 hipped dormers (with
casements), wood fully-moulded modillion eaves cornice. Walls of red brickwork
in header bond, cambered rubbed arches to the openings with projecting stone
keys, plinth (dropped on either side of the central doorway): above the doorway
is a rendered niche, with red brick frame, stone keys impost and base blocks.
Sashes with thick glazing bars, in exposed frames. The doorway has a plain
frame with cambered head, enclosing a fanlight, a moulded pediment hood on
carved brackets, with flat soffit containing a panel, and 4-Panelled door.
At the north side is a C20 single-storeyed wing of brick and tile, at the
south a C20 2-storeyed wing with a flat roof. At the rear there is a 2-
storeyed early C19 block, nearly-symmetrical of 3 windows, with hipped tile
roof, walls of horizontal flint panels, brick dentil eaves, quoins, 1st floor
band, flat rubbed arches to the ground-floor, plinth: sashes in reveals and
a wide glazed door. To the south is a narrower mid C19 extension (on the same
front) of 2 storeys and attic, I window, with a hipped roof, walls of stretcher
bond, Victorian sashes and a rectangular bay. At the north end of the rear of
the house is a C20 2-storeyed semi-circular projection. Inside, the entrance
hall has dado panelling, the lower flight of a fine staircase, a chimney
piece, and panelled doors in architraves.

Listing NGR: SP3273843631

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17539562

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2