Description

SE 54 NE ASKHAM BRYAN MAIN STREET
(north side)

3/2 The Doctor's House

- II

House. Early-mid C18 with late C18 and C19 additions. Pinkish-brown brick,
red brick quoins, ashlar dressings and pantile and Welsh slate roof. Now
L-shaped on plan: original central hall plan with later C18 one bay
extension to right and C19 wing to left. 2 storeys, 5 bays. Quoins to ends
of original block. 2 steps to central 6-fielded-panel door under oblong
fanlight in doorcase of reeded pilasters with acanthus caps below
entablature with dentil cornice on acanthus consoles. 16-pane sashes in
flush wood architraves throughout, with cills and rendered wedge lintels.
First floor 4-course band to bays 2 to 5 (from left). Wooden eaves band.
Ashlar kneeler and coping to left gable, hipped roof to right extension.
End stacks. Garden front has 3 early C19 16-pane bow windows under cornices
to ground floor. Interior: shutters to some windows. Not fully inspected.

Listing NGR: SE5501548365

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26602961

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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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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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings