Druce'S Hill House

1. CHURCH STREET 5411 (North Side)

No 22 (Druce's Hill House) ST 8261 1/10 18.4.52. ST 8260 2/10

II* GV

1. Early/mid C18. Ashlar, hipped stone tiled roof. 3 storeys 5 windows and single-storey 2 window wing on right. The main facade has rusticated quoins, moulded strings at lst and 2nd floor levels, a moulded cornice on small console brackets and a parapet with balusters at intervals directly over windows. All windows are sashes with glazing bars, architrave surrounds and moulded sills, those on the ground floor having cambered heads and keystones (including wing). Centre window over door has bolection moulding surround and fluted keystone. Square-headed central door with fanlight and 6-panelled door, 5 semi-circular steps up. The doorway and centre windows are flanked by pilasters in 3 orders forming central feature. Ground floor pilasters are semi-Tuscan, each having 3 raised surface panels with bevelled edges and surmounted by entablature having triglyphs and guttae with flower motifs in metopes. 1st floor pilasters are fluted Corinthian, with plain frieze and moulded cornice on consoles. Upper pilasters have surface panels and rise to crowning cornice. Wing extension has plain parapet and hipped stone tiled roof.

All the listed buildings in Church Street the Chantry Little Chantry, Barton Orchard and the Catholic Church of St Thomas More, Market Street form a group with Nos 7 and 9 to 19 Barton Orchard, Nos 5 and 6 and 27 to 31 (consec) and wall Newtown.

Listing NGR: ST8248960992