Blankney House Front Railings And Steps

SE 9218-9318 WINTERTON LOW STREET (north side) 9/60 No 2 (Blankney House), front railings and steps

6.11.67 II GV

House, including front railings and steps. Late C18 with some C19 internal alterations to rear. Squared limestone rubble. Brick stacks. Pantile roof. Cast-iron railings on ashlar dwarf wall. Central entrance hall plan. 2 storeys, 3 bays; symmetrical. Central pedimented bay breaks forward. Two opposed flights of 4 stone steps to entrance, with railings and ornamental iron grille to cellar window below. Doric doorcase with pilasters supporting fluted entablature and dentilled open pediment; 6-panelled door and radial fanlight in arched beaded-panel reveal. 12-pane sashes with keyed stucco flat arches and cills. Stucco first floor band. Similar first floor sashes with plain stucco flat arches. Hipped roof. Twin axial stacks. Right return, facing Market Street, has 2 windows to each floor similar to front. Railings extend approximately one metre from front, with pair of gates flanking steps to entrance: chamfered ashlar plinth, fluted column posts with pineapple finials and vertical bars with fleur-de-lys finials linked by mid- and top-rails. Interior. Original details include: open-well staircase with ramped and wreathed handrail and column-on-vase balusters with square knops, moulded stairhall ceiling with cornice and central fan design; moulded ceiling cornices, composition chimneypieces and beaded-panel doors and window shutters in architraves to main rooms on ground and first floors. A fine and largely intact example of a modest late Georgian townhouse, probably one of those built for William Marris from his £10,000 lottery winnings. W Andrews, The History of Winterton, 1836, 17.

Listing NGR: SE9275918440