Description

WILLOUGHBY WATERLEYS
MAIN STREET (West Side)
SP59 SE
4/64 Manor Farmhouse and attached
garden wall
11.1.55

GV II
House. Dated on a brick, 1693. Brick with Swithland slate roof. 5 bays, 2
storeys raised on a basement. The central doorway is reached by a flight of
stone steps and has a Gibbs-type architrave, beneath a C19 elaborately
latticed wood porch. The door itself is also C19, and has ogival upper
lights. Flanking sash windows with splayed gauged brick heads are of 20
lights with thick astragals. Basement windows are casements in rendered
surrounds. Fine modillion eaves cornice. Brick coped gables, corbelled out.
Gable end stacks are ornamented with four tiers of projecting bosses. Garden
wall is attached to the house at each angle. C18. Brick with buttresses and
stone copings. Gate piers are capped by slender flaming urns. The wall
continues to enclose a garden to the left of the house.

Listing NGR: SP5744292278

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26642789

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House