Description

BURBAGE
SU 26 SW
2/8

DURLEY

Durley Gate House

II

Ailesbury Estate House, mid C19. Red brick in header bond, with bold all-over yellow brick diaper and quoining. Roof has bands of plain and rounded tiles. North front approximately symmetrical, with wide central porch, single storey and gabled. Cross wings at ends with half hipped gables. Entrance has round arch and boarded door. Paired paned sash windows to right gable, triple similar windows to upper floor of left gable. Between, two gabled dormers. All gables have open cusped barge boards. Heavy stacks of banded brick, outset at heads. Stack lateral to left wing. To right, similar wing forms gable to road, and copied by C20 wing without diapering.

This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29 November 2016.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26287505

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