Description

COMPTON BASSETT COMPTON BASSETT VILLAGE SU 07 SW 9/173 Dugdale's House 20.12.60 II House, earlier C18, red brick with ashlar dressings and stone slate roof with coped gables and end stacks. Two storeys and attic, 5- window range. One hipped dormer with leaded casements. Twelve- pane sashes in ashlar raised moulded surrounds, the lower windows with panelled friezes, moulded cornices and brick voussoirs over. Central 6-panel door in fine ashlar surround, bolection-moulded with ornamented pulvinated frieze and large open segmental pediment on consoles. Pediment has panelled soffit and centre urn. Rubble plinth, ashlar rusticated quoins and coved eaves cornice. East end has 2-window range of cambered-head 12-pane sashes. South-east rear wing has original one window range with hipped dormer, 12-pane sash and door with hood on brackets flanked by single lights with dripstones. Extended south in simpler style c1900, hipped at south-east angle and returned west. House is said to date from 1738. Marked on 1773 Andrews and Drury map as owned by Michael Smith Esqr.

Listing NGR: SU0332273563

External Links

• Wikidata Q26572057

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record