Description

ROUNDSTONE STREET
1.
5411
(South Side)
No 5 (Rodney House)
with its stable yard and wall
and garden railings.
ST 8558 5/47 29.12.50.
II* GV

2.
Commanding late C18 town mansion. Built soon after 1790) for the younger James
Selfes. 3 storeys. Bath stone on projecting plinth. Plain string at 1st floor
level. Vitruvian scroll containing quatrefoils at 2nd floor cill level. Fluted
frieze with alternate fillers. Moulded cornice. Parapet with moulded coping and
balustrade panels over windows. 5 ranges of glazing bar sash windows. Central
doorway to ground floor with plain arched fanlight and narrow side lights, architrave
to arch and over side lights. Slightly later Greek Doric porch of 2 fluted columns
on tall block bases, 2 wall pilasters and enablature with triglyph frieze and modillioned
cornice. Flanking symetrical walls with garden doorways of plain piers and heads,
formerly round headed arches in recesses with carved foliage over (of also garden
front). The wall to left continues to stables (qv) Dwarf wall to right with arrow
head railings. Hipped slate roof, 1 ashlar chimney to west.
Garden front with 3 ranges of windows, side windows slightly set back in panel
terminated by wide corner pier: Pilasters to ground floor with Venetian windows
in arched recesses the centre a door. Moulded cope to blocking course with end
panels. 2 blind pedimented openings on each side with blind panels having carved
swags above.
Interior retains much finely executed plasterwork.

Nos 2 to 4 (consec), No 5 (Rodney House) with stable yard and garden railings,
stable buildings and walls, Nos 8 to 13 (consec) No 25 (Lovemead House), garden
wall and gate piers form a group with Polebarn House and boundary wall, gatepiers
and gates and, Polebarn Road, and Nos 1 to 6 (consec) Yerbury Almshouses, Yerbury
Street.

Listing NGR: ST8584758013

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17546567

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)