TILEHURST

Description

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

TQ 19 NW BUSHEY GRANGE ROAD (Southeast side) Bushey

6/75 No. 10 - (Tilehurst)

- II

House. 1903-4. Built by Miskins to designs of C.F.A.Voysey for Miss E.Somers. Roughcast brick, stone dressings. Machine tiled roof.

Simple Arts and Crafts style. 2 storeys and attic. Steeply pitched gable to road with catslide over entrance lean-to to left. Part-glazed door in round-arched head with tile drip mould. Horizontal rows of multi-paned wrought iron casements with stone surrounds and mullions. Ground floor, asymmetrical 1:4:1. First floor 1:4. Continuous tile drip moulds.

Smaller tile course over ventilation slits in attic. Battered buttresses at angles. Right return: entrance with part glazed door under a large projecting hood on curved braces. Towards rear a 5-light casement as at front. One 2-light flat topped dormer. Behind entrance lean-to on left return a 3-light casement and a dormer. To rear: 3 and 4-light windows on ground floor, 4-light first floor, continuous tile drip moulds.

Single large axial ridge stack just to front of centre, segmental tiled cap. Interior not inspected. (Pevsner 1977).

Listing NGR: TQ1245095619

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0791 IOE Records taken by V M Geduld; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr V. M. Geduld. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project