108 AND 110, HIGH STREET

SE 7604-7704 EPWORTH HIGH STREET (north-east side)

19/75 No 108/110

GV II

House. Early C18 with mid-late C19 alterations and rear kitchen addition, renovations of c1983-4. Brick, rendered. Pantile roof. L-shaped on plan: 2-room central lobby-entry south wing, 2-room, central entrance-hall east wing; later kitchen wing in rear angle. 2 storeys, 3 bays to south and east fronts. Symmetrical south front. Entrance has C19 doorcase with pilasters carrying entablature and hood, 6-fielded-panel door beneath moulded lintel and plain overlight in reveal. Contemporary wooden canted bay windows to either side with 4-pane front sashes, similar entablatures with moulded cornices, hoods and hipped roofs. First floor: C19 4-pane sashes in earlier flush wooden architraves with sills. Dentilled brick eaves cornice. Roof hipped to right. Large axial stack. Right return forms east front: C20 glazed door beneath plain overlight, flanked by C20 French windows to right and 4-pane sash in flush wooden architrave to left. First-floor sashes and eaves cornice similar to south front. Projecting end stack to right gable end. Left return (west side): front range has 4-pane sliding-sash stair window, first-floor 12-pane sash in flush wooden architrave, and attic board door with strap hinges; kitchen addition has large 16-pane sash, small C20 casement to ground floor, pair of C20 casements to first floor, dentilled brick eaves cornice, end stack. Interior. East entrance hall has a good early C18 open-well closed-string staircase with a heavy ramped corniced handrail, mitred over the newel posts, a corniced string, column-on-vase balusters with round knops, and a column foot-newel post; staircase framework incorporates heavy oak timbers. South front has narrow entrance passage driven through base of stack. Rooms to each side retain original fireplaces, that to left with inglenook beneath chamfered oak bressumer, that to right with inserted basket arch beneath oak bressumer made from section of former timber frame. Main south and east rooms on both floors have chamfered oak spine beams, those to ground floor with cyma stops. Original 2-fielded-panel doors with H and L hinges. Roof (not investigated) retains original timbers. The small C19 shop adjoining to south east is not included in the listing.

Listing NGR: SE7790804031