Sansome Lodge (No 4) And Sansome House (No 6)

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SO8555SW SANSOME WALK 620-1/13/500 (East side) 22/05/54 Nos.4 AND 6 Sansome Lodge (No.4) and Sansome House (No.6) (Formerly Listed as: SANSOME WALK (East side) Nos.4 AND 6)

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House, now offices. Numbered right to left, described left to right. Mid C18 for CT Withers, with later additions and alterations including wing to rear at left of Mid C19. Reddish-orange brick in Flemish bond with plain tile hipped roof, brick stack to off-centre left and to left return with oversailing course and pots, renewed stack at right. PLAN: probably originally L-plan, now U-plan; originally with central entrance. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics, 2:3:2 first-floor windows. Central pedimented breakforward. First floor has 6/6 cambered-headed sashes; ground floor has 6/6, two 10/10 and two 6/6 cambered-headed sashes; all in plain reveals and with sills and cambered arches of gauged brick. Moulded timber cornice, renewed. Pediment has lunette with gothic glazing bars. 2 box dormers with 3/3 cambered-headed sashes. Entrances to centre and off-centre left, alike: 6-raised-and-fielded-panel doors, the upper lights glazed, in tooled architraves, pilastered surrounds with fluted console brackets surmounted by frieze and segmental pediments. Right return (originally garden facade): 2:3:2 first-floor windows. Central breakforward. Mainly 6/6 cambered-headed sashes where original, in plain reveals and with sills and cambered arches of gauged brick; bow window to ground floor has two 10/10 sashes, curved on plan. Further entrance a part-glazed door in surround with Doric pilasters, frieze and cornice. 2 box dormers as front facade. Left return: similar 6/6 cambered-beaded sashes and extension with 6/6 staircase sash with radial glazing bars to head. Attic with 12/12 sash. INTERIOR: retains original joinery and plasterwork. To left part a closed string, open newel staircase with shaped and ramped handrail and elongated-onion balusters, square newel posts; panelled dado. Ovolo-moulded cornice to hall. 6-flush-panel doors. Marble fireplace to front room at right. HISTORICAL NOTE: originally Sansome House, a seat of the Withers family, set in large grounds. Shown on George Young's Map of 1779. Nos 4 and 6 Sansome Walk form a group with Nos 4-8 (consecutive) and Nos 11, 12, 12A and 13 Pierpoint Street (qqv).