Description

ANCROFT CHESWICK
NU 04 NW
7/23 East House
22/12/69

GV II

House. c.1810-15. Rendered with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. L-plan.
2 storeys, 3 bays. Rusticated quoins. Central flush-panel door in doorcase
with architrave, pilasters, triglyph frieze and modillion cornice. Decorative
patterned overlight. 12-pane sashes in raised stone surrounds. lst-floor
band. Finely-moulded cornice. Concave hipped roof with C20 stone stacks on
returns.

Left return 4 bays with similar detail. To rear apsidal stair projection in
re-entrant angle, with curved 12-pane sash.

Interior: Stone geometric stair with elegantly curved soffit, stick balusters,
slender turned newels. Panelled reveals, dado rails, 6-panel doors; 2 marble
fireplaces, and cornices; all this detail has finely-fluted mouldings with
paterae and rosettes.

Listing NGR: NU0307046572

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26652146

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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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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)