Redlands

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SP3003-3103 13/79

BAMPTON HIGH STREET (North side) Redlands

(Formerly listed as Lime Tree House)

12/09/55

GV II

House. Early/mid C18 front range, altered early C19 and C20, with late C18 and C19 rear wing and C20 extensions in rear angle. Coursed rubble limestone with stone slate roof and flanking rubble chimneys, both rebuilt C20. Original L-plan range with stair in rear bay. Two storeys and attic, two bays. Front has four-pane sashes with rendered lintels, and blind window to first floor centre. Two small gabled roof dormers with two-light wooden casements. Some traces of pre 1800 fenestration are visible, with wooden lintels.

Central six-panelled door with semi-circular stone step and wooden surround. Surround has pilasters and glazed frieze panel, and incorporates fine C18 carved scroll brackets and shell hood with plaster ornament of fruit and flowers. Right side of house has tall stair sash with semi-circular head and thick glazing bars, re-sited C20 from original position in rear wall and C20 extensions with parapets and sashes. Left side of house has C20 bay window to gable end of front wing, and C18/C19 rear wing of several builds, with one bay of five-pane sashes, and other irregular casements and doors.

Interior: fine early/mid C19 staircase with column-on-vase balusters, three per tread, scroll tread ends, ramped moulded handrail, and newel columns with acorn pendants; panelling in front bay of rear wing, with fireplace surround and arched niches is in C18 style but may well date back only to 1911; old doors; vaulted cellar to far bay.

(Illustrated in Country Life: July 19th and 26th, 1946)

Listing NGR: SP3170303196