Description

SP 85 SE WESTON UNDERWOOD HIGH STREET
(north west side)

1/236 Cowper's House
(also known as, and formerly
listed as, The Lodge)

3.3.52

GV II*

House. C17, refronted early C18. Coursed rubblestone. Old tile roof.,
2 storeys and attic. 3 wide bays. Street front is early C18,has
7'windows. Central 6-panel door in architrave surround with plain
outer surround, console brackets, cornice and pediment. 3-pane sashes
in early C18 box-frames below segmented dressed stone heads with key
blocks. The windows are grouped into rhythm 2:3:2:Splayed plinth,
moulded first floor string, 3 2-light casemented hipped dormers. Flanking
brick stacks on stone bases and stone coped gables on kneelers, 2 right
hand bays have C17 stone mullioned cellar windows. On south-west gable
is blocked C17 stone mullioned window with cornice head. Rear elevation
has sashes, some blocked and on ground floor at left a reused front
window with early C18 heavy glazing bars with chamfers. Patterned fanlight
to back door. Interior: Early C18 staircase with square newels, heavy
moulded handrail and very delicate turned balusters ending in a wide scroll
at the foot. left hand room panelled and has pilasters flanking C18
fireplace. Panelled shutters and window seats. Right hand ground floor
room has triglyph friezed cornice. 8-panel doors, The residence of
William Cowper from 1786 to 1795
RCHM II 318 ON 3

Listing NGR: SP8645350531

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17552211

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Recommended Books

• 
  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)