Description

BLOOMFIELD ROAD
(West side)

No.260 Wakefield Cottage,
with boundary wall
05/08/75

GV II

Gothick house to north of Bloomfield Crescent. C.1800.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, double Roman tile.
PLAN: T-plan house with wider front to road, projecting central bay to north-west facing slope.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys at front. Three storey plus lower ground floor at rear, facing west. Road front has two windows, twelve pane sashes, but with blind lights painted in left at second and ground floor, broad six pane sash to lower right. Centred C20 door under slab hood and cheeks with reeded edges. Two platbands, thin cornice, crenellated parapet stepped up to right, and coped gables with ashlar stacks, to hipped roofs. Right return has a narrow gable end with platbands, then steps back to wing containing paired nine pane sashes under ogee lintel and pair of painted blind lights. Splayed back to rear range with terrace at mid-height.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: To right boundary wall in coursed work with plain coping, ramped down, and rising from approx 3 to 4 metres in height.
HISTORY: This picturesque house is designed to derive maximum benefit from its commanding hillside setting. Masters, architect of Bloomfield Crescent, may have had a hand in its design: he is known to have designed Gothick houses elsewhere.

Listing NGR: ST7390662915

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26673835

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Recommended Books

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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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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)