(Forthampton Estate)

SO 8532 FORTHAMPTON BISHOP'S WALK (south side)

7/41 Nos 46 and 47 (Forthampton Estate)

GV II

Semi-detached estate house, c1865, probably by William Burges for James Yorke. Red brick with decorative grey brick diamond patterns. Limestone window surrounds. Roof, red fishscale tiling roofing, brick stack. Rectangular plan. Two-storeys, symmetrical 4-windowed facade with central gable. All windows 1, 2 and 3-light stone-mullioned casements, with glazing bars and blind ogee curved trefoil-headed lights. Segmental relieving arches in grey brick over 3-light windows. Grey brick string below sills of first floor windows. Pointed plank doors in gable-ends within pointed flat- chamfered brick surrounds. Single pitched tiled canopy supported on wooden brackets over door in left gable-end. Part-glazed C20 porch in front of door in right gable-end. Single light windows either side of door as in front elevation, small open quatrefoil towards apex of ridge. Roof; wide roof overhang supported on curved wooden brackets rising from string. Simple carved bargeboards forming trefoil to forward facing gable. Decorative cusped ridge tiling. Central stack with dentil decoration and projecting courses of grey brick. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO8543432723