Cardew House

SU 53 SE NEW ALRESFORD EAST STREET (North Side)

8/57 No 29 (Cardew House) (formerly 5.12.55 listed as Cardew Hotel) GV II

Large house. Mid C18, early and late C19. Brick and tile. Symmetrical front (south) of 2 storeys and attic, 5 windows, with a wide addition at the east side (of the middle date) of 1 window. Walling of red brickwork in Flemish bond (with blue headers to the later wing) cement plain architraves, stone cills. Victorian sashes (sashes of the early C19 at the east wing): 3 gabled dormers with bargeboards and sashs. Doric porch with open pediment and panelled soffit, 2 pilasters and 2 columns, with fluted necking, wide-arched-opening with radiating fanlight, 6-panelled door. The original double-pile roof has been replaced with a flat centre, overlapping with a tile-hung vertical at the top of the front slope, with sash windows (the west an oriel) in the end gables, which are flanked by chimneys. The house has a shallow forecourt, the east side stopped by a single-storeyed service wing (i.e. up to the highway) of brick and tile, and the west side by a high brick boundary wall (Flemish Garden Wall bond) on a plinth.

Listing NGR: SU5901032690