High Views

BISHOPS WALTHAM LOWER BASINGWELL STREET SU 55 17 9/86 Nos 9 (High Views) 10 & 11 6.3.67 GV II*

Terrace of three houses. Early C18. Walls of painted brickwork in Flemish bond, rubbed flat arches, some alterations. Tile roof, with plastered coved eaves and wrought-iron brackets. A large house, later divided. Regular west front elevation of two storeys seven windows. Mullion and transom casements. No 11 has an original doorway at the third bay, with moulded pediment/canopy on carved brackets, enclosing a carved ornamental frieze plain frame with 6- panelled (2 topglazed) door, flight of spreading stone steps with wrought-iron ornamental handrails. No 10 has a plain (lower) doorway at the fifth bay (with a small window in the top of the original window), with a thin canopy, having about it a carved ornamental frieze (similar to No. 11) and 6-panelled door. No 9 has a doorway at the same lower level, between the fifth and sixth bay, with a pediment/canopy on carved brackets, and C20 glazed door. Inside No.11, a ground-floor room is fully panelled with C18 pitchpine panelling, with an arched niche, and at the rear has timber-framing of earlier date. No 9 has a C18 staircase (now to first floor only) in a staircase wing, and dado panelling in the hall, and in a room having a corner cupboard.

Listing NGR: SU5546317415