Description

CRESCENT LANE
No.19
05/08/75

GV II*

Mews and garden building, now house. 1790-1800 converted C20. Possibly by Thomas Baldwin.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar facades, rubblestone left return and range to right, flat roof with moulded stacks to returns.
PLAN: Double depth plan.
EXTERIOR: Two storeys, three-window range to street front and two-window range to garden front. Street front, probably rebuilt, has coped parapet, three horned six/six-pane sash windows to first floor, two to ground floor left and six-panel door in moulded architrave with cornice on consoles. To right lower rubblestone range with coped gable to front of pantile roof and single six/six-pane sash window over semi-elliptical arch to C20 garage door. Garden elevation crisply detailed design in Baldwin manner. Two storeys single bay wings flanking loggia. Ashlar faced. Loggia slightly recessed from wings and has two columns `in-antis' with terminal half columns. Rear wall has central glazed door with architrave surround and blind rectangular openings to each side. Ionic order with rams heads between volutes, egg, tongue and dart below and torus moulding some distance below that. Frieze and modillion cornice. Above, blind wall (lower than wings) with three rectangular moulded panels containing pendant husk and ribbon garlands with central ramsheads. Balustraded parapet with dies, over. Wings on ground floor each have round-headed window in semicircular arched recess with heavy projecting keystone. Impost moulding as string but dying abruptly into face of loggia. Top moulding of loggia entablature continued as moulded sill course to first floor windows. First floor windows have moulded architrave surrounds flanked by half pilasters with moulded bases and Prince of Wales feather as capital plain frieze and moulded cornice over. Lintel to moulded cornice of wings on same level as top moulding of balustraded loggia parapet blocking course above.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.

Listing NGR: ST7444965519

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17532313

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