Description

STEEP STROUD ROAD
SU 72 SW
12/10 The Red House
23/01/86
GV II

Farmhouse. C17, early and late C19, C20. Walls of red brickwork in English, Monk
and Stretcher bonds, small section of malmstone with brick dressings, small section
of exposed framing, tile-hanging of part of 1st floor, and all of two walls. Tile
roof with half-hip and rear catslide, and low-pitched hipped slate roof to cross-
wing. A three-bay timber frame of two storeys, with an early C19 cross-wing of
three storeys: the latter presents a south elevation once symmetrical of three
windows, but now with a full height angular bay of three bays at the west side: the
bay is of red brickwork and the remainder is tile-hung: sashes: a glazed projection
in the middle and east side contains an entrance within a porch and a French door
to a living room. The west elevation shows the older part, of two storeys three
windows, with tile-hung 1st floor above C17 brickwork; casements, a former brick
porch (now a window) being enclosed within a larger part-open C20 porch, having the
main entrance. Small C20 single-storeyed extension at the north end, of brick and
tile.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26634315

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Recommended Books

• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)