10 And 11 Lower Basingwell Street / High Views

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

BISHOPS WALTHAM LOWER BASINGWELL STREET SU 55 17 9/86 Nos 9 (High Views) 10 & 11 6.3.67 GV II*

Terrace of three houses. Early C18. Walls of painted brickwork in Flemish bond, rubbed flat arches, some alterations. Tile roof, with plastered coved eaves and wrought-iron brackets. A large house, later divided. Regular west front elevation of two storeys seven windows. Mullion and transom casements.

No 11 has an original doorway at the third bay, with moulded pediment/canopy on carved brackets, enclosing a carved ornamental frieze plain frame with 6- panelled (2 topglazed) door, flight of spreading stone steps with wrought-iron ornamental handrails. No 10 has a plain (lower) doorway at the fifth bay (with a small window in the top of the original window), with a thin canopy, having about it a carved ornamental frieze (similar to No. 11) and 6-panelled door.

No 9 has a doorway at the same lower level, between the fifth and sixth bay, with a pediment/canopy on carved brackets, and C20 glazed door. Inside No.11, a ground-floor room is fully panelled with C18 pitchpine panelling, with an arched niche, and at the rear has timber-framing of earlier date. No 9 has a C18 staircase (now to first floor only) in a staircase wing, and dado panelling in the hall, and in a room having a corner cupboard.

Listing NGR: SU5546317415

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/1294 IOE Records taken by Peter MacLeod; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr Peter MacLeod. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project