Description

SJ 5441
8/136
1.5.51

WHITCHURCH URBAN CP
WATERGATE
(north-east side)

No 44

GV
II

House, now house and shop. Circa 1700, altered in the early- to mid-C20, and
again in the late C20. Red brick, with some sandstone dressings. Plain tile
roof. 2 storeys and attic. Chamfered quoins (those to right-hand rebuilt), plain
wooden fascia, and coped parapeted gable ends (rebuilt in C20) with integral brick
end stacks. Three C20 roof lights. 5 bays; first-floor wooden cross windows and
ground-floor C18 boxed 4-pane sashes (glazing bars removed), with painted stone
cills and lintels. Inserted C20 plate-glass shop-front to right. Roughly central
doorway (reset slightly to the right - see straight joint) with C20 half-glazed
door, rectangular overlight and painted stone lintel. INTERIOR: Well-detailed
pre-1720 dog-leg oak staircase, rising 2 floors, with half-landings, pulvinated
closed string, stubby column-on-vase balusters, moulded ramped handrail, and
panelled square newel posts with moulded caps. Depressed archway to ground-floor
corridor with panelled pilasters.

Listing NGR: SJ5424041365

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26582756

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)