Number 29 And Adjoining Stable Block

WHITCHURCH URBAN C.P. DODINGTON (south-west SJ 5441 side 8/66 No. 29 and adjoining 1.5.51 stable block GV II

House and stable block, now doctors' surgery. Late C18. Red brick with 2-span plain tile roof. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys. Painted chamfered sandstone plinth and dentil brick eaves cornice. Right hand corner rounded to ground floor. Integral brick end stack to left. 3 bays; glazing bar sashes with painted stone cills and gauged-brick heads, blind to centre. Central door with 6 raised and fielded panels, 4-part rectangular overlight and wooden porch with attenuated unfluted baseless Doric columns, Fluted pilasters, entablature and triangular pediment. 2 slate steps and bootscrapers. Right-hand gable end: mid-C19 four- panelled door to left with rectangular overlight, panelled reveals and soffit, moulded architrave and consoles supporting cornice. Late C19 wing at rear. Former stable-block adjoining to left. Red brick with plain tile roof. L-plan,with gable to left. Dentil brick eaves cornice and crowstepped gable ends. 2 storeys. Segmental-headed boarded loft door to left and large 5-light segmental-headed ground-floor window with chamfered cill, formerly to coach house (see straight joints beneath). Part set back to right has elliptical archway leading to yard behind, with impost blocks and pair of boarded gates. Lower range to rear. Interior of house: C18 three-flight square-well oak staircase, rising to attic, with winders and half landings, open string with cut brackets, moulded nosings, column-on-vase balusters (2 per tread), ramped moulded handrail, and columnular newel posts. 2 deep-chamfered ground-floor beams. Large open fireplace in right-hand ground-floor room with chamfered segmental wooden lintel and plain C18 surround with moulded cornice and mantleshelf with reeded front. Left-hand ground-floor room has early C19 fireplace with reeded architrave. Right-hand ground-floor rear room has C18 door with 2 raised and fielded panels. C18 first-and second-floor doors with 2 raised and fielded panels. C18 fireplace in right-hand first- floor room with lugged architrave and cast-iron grate. C18 fireplaces in second-floor rooms, with lugged architrave in right-hand room, moulded architrave in left-hand room, and architrave and moulded cornice in left- hand rear room.

Listing NGR: SJ5436941146