Description

SK 38/3924 PARISH OF MELBOURNE POOL ROAD
6/155 (West Side)
Pool House and
Attached Garden
Railings
GV II
House and attached garden railings, now old people's home. 1838
in Tudor style, with C20 addition. Tooled ashlar front and red
brick gable walls, with stone dressings. Slate roof with
pierced bargeboards to gables plus steeple finials, and two rear
wall stacks with rendered, twin diamond set pots. Two storeys
and three bays, each gabled. Moulded four-centred arched
doorcase with incised spandrels, returned hoodmould and studded
wooden door to centre and to either side, 3-light recessed and
chamfered mullion windows with returned hoods. Above, to
centre, there is an oriel window on moulded brackets with
2-light recessed and chamfered mullion window to front and
similar single lights to sides, plus moulded cornice and lapped
stone roof above. To either side, beneath the gables, the
stonework projects slightly over a moulded band, and to centre
there are 2-light recessed and chamfered mullion windows with
returned hoods. Above, each has a slit window in the gable.
East gable wall has similar windows above and below. All
windows have lozenge pattern metal glazing. Rear C20 addition
of no interest. Garden railings to east and north have
elaborate fleur de lys finials, with scrolled brackets
supporting the main posts, and stone piers to corners with
moulded cornices and pyramidal copings.

Listing NGR: SK3908524805

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26619293

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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