Description

SHIPTON-UNDER-WYCHWOOD ASCOTT ROAD
SP 21 NE
(south side)
3/45
- Chestnut Close
- II
Small country house. Dated "H/SF/1913". Coursed rubble with freestone quoins and
dressings, Cotswold stone roofs, coped verges with cut finials. Roughly H-plan,
Cotswold style with mullion windows, drips and leaded casesments. Large grouped
ashlar stacks; central gable with cut finial and short sections of crenellated
parapet. Two storeys and attics, symmetrical fenestration basically 1:3:1 bays.
Three single-lights on first floor to projecting side gables over one 3-light window
on ground floor. Centre part has 2-light windows and central gable with ashlar
canted first floor oriel and lozenge datestone. Below is Tudor arch moulded doorway
with battered door and beaten brass Art Nouveau style handle inside and stone
bracketed open pediment hood which supports the oriel. Dated lead rainwater heads.
Regular first floor flower balconies of inferior design. The south front is more
Cotswold manor house-like with 3 gables, centre recess, mullion windows of 2, 3 and
4-lights, angled bays to outer gables.

Listing NGR: SP2967917935

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26573191

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)