Glen House
GLEN HOUSE, 24, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1068726
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Glen House
- Statutory Address:
- GLEN HOUSE, 24, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1068726
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Glen House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GLEN HOUSE, 24, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GLEN HOUSE, 24, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Epworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SE7827303844
Details
SE 7803-7903
20/67
EPWORTH
HIGH STREET
(north side)
No 24 (Glen House)
GV
II
House. 1779 with minor alterations of 1930s. Brown brick in Flemish bond,
rendered below ground-floor sill level. Pantile roof. L-shaped on plan:
2-room, central entrance-hall front with single-room wing to rear left.
2 storeys, 3 bays; symmetrical. Central bay breaks forward. Entrance has
stone step to pedimented doorcase with slim ribbed pilasters carrying
dosserets with moulded cornice and moulded pediment; deep overlight with
geometric glazing over recessed 6-panel door (4 fielded panels over flush
panels). Three-quarters height flat-roofed canted bay windows to either
side have C20 plate-glass sashes to each floor in original wood surrounds
with sills, architraves and moulded cornices. Narrow central first-floor
sash with C20 plate-glass sash in original opening with flush wooden
architrave and sill beneath stucco flat arch. Plain wooden eaves board,
bracketed corniced wooden gutter. Stone-coped gables with shaped kneelers.
Corniced end stacks. Rainwater head to left gable bears inscription:
V
J S
1779
Interior. Hall has fine open-well cantilevered staircase with ramped and
wreathed corniced handrail, slender drop-on-vase balusters with square
knops, clustered foot newel and profiled cheek-pieces; moulded cornice and
frieze to upper hall ceiling with plasterwork fan motif; moulded cornice and
ribbed frieze to lower hall ceiling. Ground-floor front rooms have moulded
cornices, ribbed friezes and boxed-in spine beams to ceilings, basket-arched
alcoves flanking chimneys. Moulded skirting, fielded-panel window reveals
and 6-fielded-panel doors (some with H and L hinges) in ovolo-moulded
architraves.
Listing NGR: SE7827303844
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 165128
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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