Description

SJ 40 NE BAYSTON HILL C.P. GREAT LYTH

5/9 Great Lyth Manor
- (formerly listed
29.1.52 as Great Lyth in the
Parish of Condover)
GV II

Small country house. Mid-C17 with later alterations and repairs, principally
of late C20. Red brick (English bond) on chamfered plinth, machine tile
roofs. U-plan. 2 storeys and attics; corbelled floor bands; central
recessed section of 3 bays and 2 projecting 2-bay cross-wings with shaped
gables; late C20 wooden cross-windows throughout under gauged heads; central
entrance; 6-panel late C20 double doors with blind round-headed modillioned
arch above; the shaped eaves dormer directly above is also a late C20 reconstruction;
prominent integral lateral stacks to side walls with slender brick buttresses
and re-built capping, a similar stack in centre to back wall. The house was
derelict until 1970s and has since been extensively restored. Interior not
inspected, but all the fittings are said to have been removed. B.o.E., p.133.

Listing NGR: SJ4584807141

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26648502

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (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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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)