Description

EGGLESTON PROSPECT TERRACE
NY92SE (West end)

19/28 Eggleshope House
West and Eggleshope
House East with
attached out-
buildings
GV II
2 houses, at one time united and later re-divided, with outbuildings attached.
Mid C19 for London Lead Company. Coursed squared coarse sandstone with ashlar
dressings and chamfered quoins; rear coursed rubble. Stone-flagged roof with
stone gable copings. 2 storeys, 6 bays and east pent one-storey addition, to
which a one-storey, 5-bay outbuilding is attached at right-angles. South
elevation: early C20 metal French doors with glazing bars at centre of each
house between plain pilasters under stone-bracketed gabled hoods. Flat stone
lintels and projecting stone sills to sashes with glazing bars, those of
Eggleshope House West with plain glazing added in front of original sashes.
Stone block gutter brackets. 3 corniced ridge chimneys, at ends and centre.
Set-back right pent addition, front obscured by low C20 addition, links to
gable of outbuildings.

Rear elevation shows each house has central 2-storey projection under catslide
roof, with doors in plain stone surrounds; pedimented porch with plain round
columns to Eggleshope House East; sashes with glazing bars. Inner return of
outbuildings has wood lintels over 2 boarded vehicle entrances, and stone
lintels over 2 boarded doors and fixed light with glazing bars and brick sill.
Said to have been the home for many years of Ethel M. Dell, popular novelist
(1881-1939).

Listing NGR: NY9950824186

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26608543

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
• 
  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)