7, North Street

SE 80 NW 8/154

WEST BUTTERWICK NORTH STREET (west side) No 7

GV II

Wrongly marked as No 11 on Ordnance Survey map. House. Early-mid C19. Red brick with stone dressings. Concrete tile roof. L-shaped on plan: 2-room, central entrance-hall front with wing to rear right. 2 storeys, 3 bays; symmetrical. Entrance has 2 stone steps with moulded nosings to Ionic doorcase with pilasters carrying entablature with plain frieze, moulded cornice and blocking course. C20 part-glazed door and surround. Unequal 15-pane ground-floor sashes with architraves in reveals with sills beneath channelled and keyed cambered wedge lintels. 12-pane first-floor sashes in similar surrounds. Wooden modillion eaves cornice with C20 replacement gutter. Stone-coped gables. C20 rebuilt corniced end stacks. Interior. Single-flight staircase with moulded handrail, plain balusters, octagonal newel post and profiled cheek pieces. Ground-floor left drawing room has moulded dado rail, chimney-piece with detached columns carrying entablature with dosserets. Good plasterwork details: entrance hall ceiling with acanthus leaf centre-piece, moulded cornice and frieze with rosettes; modillioned cornice to upper stairhall, ceiling to ground floor left with foliate cornice and large ornate centre-piece.

Listing NGR: SE8354705888