Description

BLOOMFIELD ROAD,
Odd Down
(East side)

No.297 Tower House
05/08/75

GV II

Detached house, reputedly for quarry owner. Mid C19.
MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, double Roman tile roof.
EXTERIOR: Symmetrical two storey villa, with, to rear left, three storey square tower. Front has three windows, all four pane sashes, to sill band at first floor, central two panel door with transom light under gabled porch with Roman Doric columns carrying stone gable and barge board. Above windows are paired small stone eaves brackets, and main gable ends have deep eaves with decorative pierced bargeboards. Tower, with cornice and parapet, has plain sash to each face and at each level.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
HISTORY: The tower, a good example of a belvedere built to exploit the fine prospects, is thought to have enabled quarry owner to supervise operations in his adjacent quarry.

Listing NGR: ST7382562650

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26673975

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock