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SU69SW
2/17

BENSON
OBSERVATORY CLOSE
No 35 and 36

(Formerly listed as BROOK STREET (South side) No.16 (Brook Cottage))

GV
II

House. C16 with C18 and C19 alterations and extensions. Grey brick to left; banded limestone and flint to right with red brick dressings; plain-tile roof; brick stacks. Two storey, two-window range. Six-panel part-glazed door to centre with flat hood. Tripartite windows with 15-pane sashes to centre, to left and right. Two two-light casements to first floor. Two cross-gables to roof. Ridge stack to left; end stack to right. Irregular fenestration of casements to right return.

Interior not inspected.

Subsidiary wing to left; probably former barn with knapped flint walls to left and right with brick dressings; limestone rubble to centre with some timber framing.

Listing NGR: SU6261692106

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26650389

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Recommended Books

• 
  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)