14, Crescent Lane

CRESCENT LANE (South side) No.14 05/08/75

GV II

Coach house and garden building, now garages with flats over. c1773, by Charles Hamilton (portico only), altered 1877 by Hayward & Wooster, converted late C20. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, roof unseen. PLAN: U-plan with two forward wings to street facade. EXTERIOR: Two storeys, symmetrical four-window range. Balustraded parapet with panelled dies and entablature with cornice and lintel frieze. Street front has six/six-pane sash windows in moulded architraves, two to front of each wing and one to each return. Moulded sill stringcourse and ground floor platband. Cast iron scrolled balconettes to first floor windows, swept lead canopy over door to left of set back centre. Two storey garden front has central pediment between floor levels supported by paired Ionic columns `in-antis' over moulded architrave and pediment to C20 central set back door flanked by six/six-pane sashes in plain openings. To each pedimented side are two horned six/six-pane first floor windows and half octagonal conservatories with cast iron cresting and finials to ground floor, restored or renewed. INTERIOR: Not inspected. HISTORY: The original form of this garden house must have been much more like No.13 next door with a single storey only. It demonstrates a surprising degree of Victorian sensitivity in the extension of this building in a matching classical style.

Listing NGR: ST7452865495