Rose Dodd St Albans

BURFORD AND UPTON HIGH STREET AND SIGNET (West Side) SP2512 (Enlargement) No 132 (Rose Dodd) and 7/148 No 130 (St Albans 12.9.55 House) (Previously listed as part of Grafton House) and No 128 (Grafton House)

GV II

Burgage home with shops. Front of c.1863 to C16 and C17 buildings. Ashlar with low pitched slate roof concealed by blocking course. 3 storeys; cornice and bedmould over ground floor, hand over 1st floor, cornice and bedmould over 2nd floor. 3 pilasters to 1st and 2nd floors supported by engaged Doric columns (cornices etc united round). Irregularly-spaced windows: 4 (wide-spaced): 3 (close-spaced), sashes 4 (wide-spaced): 3 (close-spaced), sashes with single vertical glazing bars in segmental heads in raised flat surrounds with keys. Good quality C17 wing to rear: 2 storeys and attics: 3-light mullioned window on 1st floor, 5-light on ground floor with drip, hollow chamfer mouldings; square head moulded door to right. Gabled stair turret at right angles with newel stair, stone to cellar, wooden above with splat balusters and turned newel at head. the best feature is a fine baroque fire-place on the 1st floor: side scrolls, split Ionic columns with loops to drapery, segmental pediment with cornice extending to each side and broken centre over moulded panel.

Listing NGR: SP2511512123