Bishop House Jewell House

TQ 7444 MARDEN ALBION ROAD (south-west side)

5/5 Bishop House and Jewell House 23.5.67 (formerly listed as Jewell House)

II

House. Early to mid C18Front elevation tile-hung on both floors. Right return elevation clad with channelled render. Vertical wooden fillet to each corner. Slate roof. Main range with wings projecting forwards to right and left. 2 storeys and attics on rendered chamfered plinth. Moulded wooden eaves cornice. Steeply-pitched roof, each wing hipped to front. Rendered ridge stack to each wing, set towards junction with main range. Flat-roofed dormer with bowed 12- pane sash in moulded architrave, to front hip of each wing. Regular 4-window front of one two-storey tile-hung bow window with bowed tripartite sash to each floor, to gable end of each wing, and one 12- pane sash on each floor towards each end of main range. Central double doors, each door of six fielded panels, set in moulded architrave with two fielded panels over doors. Open semi-circular distyle porch with plain frieze, modillions, and moulded cornice, up 3 semi-circular stone steps with slightly moulded risers, to Bishop House to centre of main range. Half-glazed door towards centre of left return elevation, to Jewell House. Interior: only partly inspected. Reeded friezes and architraves, panelled doors to front, and exposed wall posts and high axial beam to rear ground-floor room of Jewell House. Bishop House has staircase with turned balusters, and Ionic modillioned eaves cornice to front ground-floor room of right wing.

Listing NGR: TQ7473544234