Description

1.
1615 MOTCOMBE ROAD
Pensbury House
ST 8623 5/201
II*
2.
Mid C18 structure at south-west end. Garden front facing north-west of
2 storeys, 5 bays. Ashlar. Slate roof. Panelled parapet. Centre bay
projects slightly forward and has a triangular pediment over. Stringcourse.
Moulded cornice. Windows 3 panes wide in frames; moulded archivolts with
keystones. In centre bay round-headed doorway with moulded archivolt (with
triple keystone) on pilasters; flanked by taller pilasters with entablature
with triangular pediment over. Contemporary rainwater head in corner behind
central bay. Road front of 2 storeys, 3 bays. Ashlar. 2nd bay also projects,
and 3rd bay also projects but slightly less. Moulded cornice and parapet
with triangular pediment over central bay; panelled parapet over. Windows
3 panes wide in reveals; stone architraves; small keystones. Doorway with
stone architrave; triangular pediment on scroll brackets. C19 wing at
north east end, 2 storeys. 3 windows. Left hand bay projects forward.
Date 1863 below one of the windows.

Listing NGR: ST8634023552

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17539932

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Recommended Books

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey