47, Winchester Street

WINCHESTER STREET 1. 1594 (North Side) No 47 SU 1430 SB 2/214 28.2.52.

II* 2. Late C18 front to mid C17 building. Corner site with St Edmund's Church Street qv. 2 storeys and attic, mathematical tile front on stucco plinth, string at lst floor level, band cornice, parapet with moulded coping, old tile roof, flank chimneys. 2 hipped dormer windows with lead casements, 5 windows on 1st floor. 4 windows on ground floor. All windows have moulded frames. Central 6-panelled door; rectangular fanlight (curved and radiating pattern). Tall panelled reveals Painted wood doorcase with architrave surround. Pilasters fluted with reeded necking, entablature broken forward over pilasters, moulded and dentilled cornice. Frieze ornamented with groups of flute, central urn, ribbons, wreaths, and small rosettes. Flight of 6 steps, plain rails, ball topped standards, dog rails. St Edmund's Church Street front. Triple gabled front with projecting plinth, stone copings to gables and to short lengths of parapet between. Left hand gable has double rusticated brick quoins capped with small moulding and 2 2-light stone mullioned casement windows; left hand blocked. Remainder irregular windows, some stone mullioned some C18 sash. This east front is the C17 part of the house, English bond brickwork. The house is only one room deep with wing along Rollestone Street. The north front partly obscured by modern lean-to and additions has 4 blocked windows but retaining their stone crosses. Interior has good C17 staircase at beginning of wing rising through 3 storeys, with closed string, turned balusters, turned newels with openwork finials. Roof trusses in wing plastered over. Panelling from this house has been reset in No 9 De Vaux Place qv. Important house.

Listing NGR: SU1468330060