Erw Wen And Attached Garden Walls

BISHOP AUCKLAND

NZ1726 STAINDROP ROAD, West Auckland 634-1/9/189 (West side) 29/03/73 No.2 Erw Wen and attached garden walls (Formerly Listed as: STAINDROP ROAD, West Auckland No.2)

GV II

House with attached walls. Late C18 with C20 addition. Thin courses of squared sandstone with large quoins and painted tooled ashlar dressings. Roof of thin artificial slates imitating Welsh slate, with stone gable copings and brick chimneys. 2 storeys, 3 windows. Central renewed 4-panel door and 3-pane overlight in painted tooled stone surround. Similar tooling to flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills of renewed sashes with glazing bars. Low-pitched roof has stone eaves gutter on widely-spaced stone brackets. Plain stone gable copings, and corniced end chimneys. Rear elevation has French window inserted and outshut added c1970. Walls 4m high flanking house front, running north and south from gables, have stone and quoins similar to house material, as has low wall enclosing rectangular garden in front, with central renewed wrought-iron gate. Left high wall continues along south and east boundary of rear garden. INTERIOR shows dogleg stair with block tread ends and stick balusters.

Listing NGR: NZ1784026297