Description

SU 9490 SW BEACONSFIELD GROVE ROAD

12/200 No 1 (Top Meadow)
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- II

1912 by W F C Holden, added to on the left in 1922 and at the rear (the library)
in 1935. The home of G K Chesterton, 1922-36. Red brick; machine tile roof.
One storey plus attic. Two chimneys with paired stacks placed diagonally on
square bases. The stack facing the road stands above and behind a gabled bay
with flanking hipped roofs that, inside, are seen to provide a fireplace.
Curved dormer windows with leaded lights either side of the chimney make of
the stack an asymmetrical feature. To the right, the door and a dormer window
with hipped roof. The gabled addition of 1922 is of decidedly less architec-
tural interest: brick in its ground floor, imitation timber framing in its first_-
floor and attic. The library is likewise of less architectural interest.

Listing NGR: SU9430390470

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26617409

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)