27, Queen Street

SE 7803-7903 20/85 1.3.67

EPWORTH QUEEN STREET (west side)

No 27

GV II

Wrongly marked as No 25 on Ordnance Survey map. House, now part of house. Early-mid C18 with later minor alterations. Orange-brown brick in Flemish bond, colour-washed to front, rendered to gables. Welsh slate roof. Rectangular on plan: 2 rooms with entrance hall to left, small outshut to rear left. 2 storeys with attic, 5 bays. C20 painted imitation plinth and quoins. Entrance has stone step with moulded nosing to 6-fielded-panel door and 3-pane overlight in original beaded frame with ornate carved foliate brackets carrying corniced hood. 12-pane ground-floor sashes (the left pair with original early-mid C18 thick glazing bars) with sills beneath rubbed- brick flat arches. 3-course brick first-floor band with upper 2 courses projecting. Similar first-floor windows beneath shallower flat arches. Late C19-C20 modillioned cornice below original coved plaster eaves cornice. C19 bracketed gutter. Raised gables and truncated end stacks with unsympathetic C20 rendering. C20 rebuilt ridge stack with rendered lower section. Interior. Good open-well staircase with ramped corniced handrail, column-on-vase balusters with square knops, column newel posts and profiled cheek-pieces. Ground-floor front rooms have moulded dado rails, spine beams and moulded cornices to ceilings, fielded-panel window shutters and 2- and 4-fielded-panel doors in architraves. Lower 2-storey section to left (No 25), now part of house, is not of special interest.

Listing NGR: SE7830103772