Office Of Haskins Limited

SU 65 SE OLD BASING BILTON ROAD 11/2 30.6.75 Office of Haskins Ltd (formerly listed as Office of Haskins Ltd (former Office of Daneshill Brick and Tile Works))

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Early C20, by E Lutyens. Originally the office to a brickworks, and related to houses (see Daneshill) for the same owner. Tall ground-floor, attic window in each end gable. Symmetrical front (south) with a large 1/2-octagon bay window on either side of a central entrance. Steep red tile roof, with massive central Tudor stack of 2 separate spiral flues on moulded octagonal bases on a rectangular base. Parapet design of square rusticated columns joined by open work, resting on a cornice with cut brick mouldings. Thin red bricks in Flemish bond; brick transoms (mullion to centre window) within splayed reveals, moulded cill band, plinth. The doorway is a plain arch within a rectangular frame, having 3 brick mullioned lights at the top, and double doors (each of 4 panels). The gable ends have long and short quoins, the roof falling to a low eaves at the rear. Small upper coupled lights in the gable, and a larger mullioned window at the east end.