Castle Hill House

Description

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

BRIGHOUSE THORNHILL ROAD SE 12 SW RASTERICK 3/214 Nos. 215, 217, 219 221 and 227, Castle Hill House, and wells.

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Five houses, originally a single small country house. c1800 with later C19 alterations and additions. Coursed rubble with ashler dressings, and stone slate roofs, 5 stone stacks.

2 storey. East front, has slightly recessed central bay with 2 round headed doorways, now with windows, and a pair of Doric columned porches. To the left a square bay windows with plain sashes, and to the right a Venetian window with a central glazed door. Above a central tripartite sash window with eitherside 2 plain sashes.

West, street front very irregular, Nos. 215, 217 and 227 have plain sashes, and an attached glazed entrance porch.

Nos. 219 and 221, possibly the former lodge, has 2 C20 doors, and 2 windows with upper sections having ornate glazing, 3 upper casements have similar ornate glazing bars.

Attached garden-walls carved ashler with curved coping and square piers, entrance section has rusticated stone work, with outer piers, concave walls and inner-piers. Interior contains early C19 stone staircase with ornate iron balusters, plus a single fireplace made from fragments of C17 wooden furniture. Michael Fairless (Margaret Fairless Barber), the author of The Roadmender was born here in 1869.

Listing NGR: SE1393121707

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/2251 IOE Records taken by Nigel Wood; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr Nigel Wood. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project