Description

MOOR LANE
1.
5390
Staines
Duncroft House
(formerly listed under
Vicarage Road)
TQ 07 SW 3/121 8.4.81
II

2.
Main section appears early C18, enlarged 1893 (see date) in Jacobean style (see
dated rainwater head 1621). Main section: 2 storeys, rendered with plaster panels
below windows, stone cornice and balustraded parapet. Concealed hipped roof.
Two shaped lead rainwater heads. Seven windows, glazing bar sashes with pulvinated
friezes to first floor and keys to ground floor. Central Tudor or Jacobean style
classical porch (probably of the 1920s), and glazed doors with 3 centred fanlight.
Interior: fine panelled stair-hall with dado and cornice (latter seems 1770s in
style) and with good staircase, 3 balusters, some twisted, per tread, cut and carved
string. The 2 front ground floor rooms are lavishly panelled and have enriched
skirting, dado, cornice and surrounds to openings, the right hand room has an "Adam-
style" ceiling.
Two and a half storey brick rendered and tiled wing of circa 1893 to right. Two
storey rendered wing to left, dated 1893, of 2 bays with a full height bow to left.
West wing circa 1893 in mid C17 style. Two and a half storeys with mullion and
transom windows and labels. Two gables for dormers, 2 storey tower porch, small
central gable, coped gable ends with diagonally set chimneys.
See RCHM Middlesex p 112.

Listing NGR: TQ0311272015

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26586339

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Recommended Books

• 
  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas