45 AND 47

OVERBURY CP - SO 9437 - 9537 9/102 Nos 45 and 47 30-7-59 GV II

Pair of houses. 1875 and attributed to Richard Norman Shaw for Robert Martin. Coursed dressed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, stone tiled roof in diminishing courses, gable-end parapets with kneelers and gabled finials and ashlar ridge stack with four shafts and moulded capping and base. Single storey and attic with half-dormers and chamfered plinth. Two bays. Windows are chamfered mullioned type with casements and are of three lights with hoodmoulds on the ground floor; gabled half-dormers have gabled finials and there is a 2- light and a 3-light window with dripmoulds. Entrance to No 45 to the right has a doorway with a 4-centred head and hoodmould and above it is a datestone. inscribed "RM/1875". Similar entrance to No 47 in left gable end. Attic lights in gable ends and loophole in apex of both gables. There is a service wing to the rear of No 45. This building is similar in design, detail and date to Nos 48 and 49 (qv). (Saint, A: Richard Norman Shaw, London, 1976).

Listing NGR: SO9580937285