Description

FLIXTON SOMERLEYTON ROAD
TM 59 NW
2/13 Flixton House and stable
yard
II
House. Circa 1850, for Thomas Morse, a local brewer. White brick, hipped
slated roof. 2 storeys. 4-bay facade with pilaster strips at the angles.
Inset sash windows with glazing bars under flat brick arches; the left hand
ground floor window is blind. 2 of the paired louvred window shutters remain
in position. The doorway has a 4-panel door in 2 leaves, plain rectangular
fanlight and an open porch on 2 pairs of slender columns with entablature
above. 4-bay garden front to left hand return, some of the sash windows now
with large panes. To the right of the entrance front, behind a screen wall,
is the stable yard, with coach house and stable block on 2 sides. Both are of
red brick and unaltered, the stables with 3 semi-circular headed cast iron
windows. The interior of the house is intact; there is a well stair with
stick balusters and carved tread-ends.

Listing NGR: TM5132395967

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26635628

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)