Number 6 And Folly Adjoining To Left

SE 9218-9318 WINTERTON HIGH STREET (north side) 9/50 No 6 and Folly adjoining to left

GV II

House with former coach house and outhouse now incorporated in house, and Gothick folly containing outhouse. 1828, with earlier origins, by William Fowler of Winterton; early C20 alterations and first floor addition to left. House: coursed limestone rubble with brick dressings to ground floor, brick to first floor and stacks; original house section to right stuccoed. Slate roof. Folly: coursed limestone rubble and brick with re-used medieval ashlar dressings. Gothick style. House is in 3 sections: a) 2-storey, 3- bay symmetrical front to original house on right with b) single-bay former coach house section and c) single-storey with attic single-bay section set back to left. Section to right: plinth; central projecting enclosed porch with C20 part-glazed door in chamfered surround with hoodmould, moulded cornice and flat hood. 2-light casements with chamfered surrounds, cills and hoodmoulds, boldly-moulded first floor band, smaller similar first floor windows, large painted carved bust above entrance. Chamfered eaves cornice, deep eaves. Former coach house to left:4-light ground-floor window with rubbed brick keyed flat arch and brick cill inserted in former entrance; 3- course dentilled brick first floor band, c.1970 first floor casement in original opening. Lower section to left: brick quoins; 6-panelled door in chamfered Tudor-arched architrave, single-light window to left in chamfered surround with hoodmould and carved stops; 2-light dormer with sashes. Hipped roof to 2-storey section with 2 axial stacks; pitched roof to lower section with end stack. Adjoining folly: single storey, 2 windows. Central entrance with pointed chamfered ashlar arch on plain moulded imposts is flanked by chamfered single-light ashlar windows, that to left glazed and with pointed arch below a section of brick walling, that to right set in broken wall and without top section. Section of buttress to right with niche containing fragments of statuary. Brick outhouse inside the structure to left. Interior of house: moulded ceiling cornice to drawing room ground floor left. William Fowler, 1761-1832, the architect, builder and accomplished engraver, lived here for the last years of his life. J.T. Fowler, The Correspondence of William Fowler, 1907.

Listing NGR: SE9269818567