26, Park Hill Road

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SX9263 PARK HILL ROAD 885-1/18/206 (South East side) No.26

GV II

House, in use as meeting rooms for a society. c1860s. Plastered; slate roof; stacks with stuccoed shafts with sunk panels, moulded cornices and some old pots. PLAN: On a corner site, wedge-shaped on plan with a rounded end. Central doorway on Parkhill Road side. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement on Parkhill Road side, 3 storeys to Meadfoot Lane. 3-bay elevation to Parkhill Road. Deep boxed eaves; moulded eaves band; rusticated quoins; first floor platband. Original segmental-headed doorway with a moulded, eared, shouldered architrave. Recessed original 6-panel door, upper panels round-headed; Greek key moulding below fanlight. Left and right ground-floor windows, segmental-headed with moulded eaved shouldered architraves and glazed with high-transomed timber casements. 3 first-floor tall high-transomed French windows onto C20 balconies. First-floor windows are casements with glazing bars with segmental-headed moulded architraves. Platband and eaves band extend round other elevations. Rounded corner bay to the right; ground and first-floor window with plain embrasures, second floor window with moulded architrave. 2-bay elevation in Meadfoot Lane. Shallow projecting stack to left, shaft projecting through roof. Recessed 4-panel door to left with basement window to right. 2 first-floor windows with moulded architraves, glazed with timber casements; 2 second-floor segmental-headed windows matching those on the other elevations. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SX9203463384