Castle Hill

ACTON SCOTT

SO48NW Castle Hill 1312-1/9/2 15/03/74 (Formerly Listed as: Castle Hill and Old Post Office.)

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House. C17 with C19 extensive restoration. Painted square-panelled timber frame with painted rendered infill panels, stone rubble rear and side extension wings. Plain-tile roofs with pierced ornamental bargeboards and finials to gables. 2 central profiled C19 brick ridge stacks. T-shaped plan of main range with cross wing with end and side extension wings. EXTERIOR: 2-storey and single-storey plus attic. West front with advanced gabled wing of 2 storeys to right-hand side, the upper storey with jettied and scalloped stop-chamfered bressumer on curved brackets and single 2-light casement window in projecting frame with sill brackets. To left are 2 bays each with semi-dormers breaking above eaves, a canted bay window with tiled pentice roof and doorway with gabled weather-hood on pilaster brackets. 2-storey stone rubble bay on left-hand side with one simple casement window. C19 leaded lights throughout. South side: 3 framed-bay elevation with central advanced bay with projecting framed casement window with sill brackets capped with gable and with framed projecting ground-floor porch with canted lintel. One jettied bay either side, each with projecting mullioned and transom ground-floor window and jettied upper storey with scalloped stop-chamfered bressumer set on console brackets. Upper storey of square-framed panels with ornamental bracing forming lozenge patterns. 2-storey stone rubble extension on right-hand side with C20 casement. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO4443289764