Gothic House

1. LONDON ROAD 1163 (South East Side) No 1 (Gothic House ) No 2

TM 3877 1/27 21.1O.49.

II* GV

1. C16, originally one building, now separate. Timber-framed. Overhanging 1st floor. No 1 now stucco finish, No 2 still shows structural timbers with brick nogging plastered over. Plain tiles, one stack of 6 detached square flues Joined at top, probably mod C19 restoration. Original Jacobean porch supported on 4 wood columns with twin wood arches and pendentives between each column, enriched frieze and dentil cornice. Suckling shows these columns based on a low wall but this now replaced by wood pedestrals. Sucklings engraving shows a 3-light sashed bay over the porch in front of a square projection with the words "Harvey's Academy" over the porch, which school was not long after transferred to Castle House Holton Road, qv. No 1, 4 windows, casement with cast iron hexagonal small panes, and `Tudor' dripmoulds over. Suckling states in 1848 the windows were sashes. The present windows appear circa 1850-60. No2 has mullion transom windows and a 3-light mullion casement on the street front, and at the back at least one mullion transom window. No1 has moulded and stop chamfered door frame, reproduction Tudor door probably mid C19. Internally there are several heavily moulded oak beamed and joisted ceilings, oak staircase with heavy turned balusters and newels. No 2 has the original spiral staircase. Suckling in 1848 illustrates an elaborate mantelpiece with the Bedingfield coat of arms and an ornate doorway, stating that they "have recently been removed." The house was occupied by the Bedingfield family from 1547 to 1720, among whom were Sir Henry Bedingfield Lord Chief Justice of the Common Please and Sir Robert Bedingfield, Lord Mayor of London 1707.

Nos 1 and 2, Nos 4 to 10 (consec) & Nos 25 to 28 (consec) form a group.

Also Nos 1 and 2 form a group with No 39 and White Lion, Thoroughfare.

Listing NGR: TM3866577328