Homelands Including Front Garden Area Railing Immediately North

MORETONHAMPSTEAD THE SQUARE (south side), SX 7586 Moretonhampstead 8/173 No. 6 (Homelands) [formerly listed aS No 6 - (ingleside)] including front garden area 23.8.55 railing immediately north GV II House. Early C19. Stuccoed granite rubble. Double span slate hipped roof with lead rolls to hips and ridge. Brick shafts to stacks on side walls. Double-depth plan with principal front room on either side of central entrance hall with slightly wider stair well at rear of hall. Behind the right-hand rooms is third large room, probably the kitchen, and behind the left-hand room 2 small unheated service roofs. 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front with corner pilasters with round-headed panels and paired brackets to eaves fascia board. Original 16-pane sashes with louvred shutters. Central doorway with panelled reveals, rectangular overlight with intersecting diamond pattern glazing bars and transom with zigzag decoration. Large Doric porch with octagonal columns with reeding, pilasters with paterae and entablature with dentilled cornice and triglyph frieze flanking walls left and right with pointed arch doorways, left-hand with original door with Gothic cover moulds, left-hand later boarded door. Rear elevation has large round-headed stair window at centre with original 18-pane sash, flanked by tripartite first floor sashes, 16-pane sash to ground floor left and C20 door to right. Interior: plan and features intact including open well stair in well at rear of hall, with open string stick balusters, turned newels and moulded handrail. The early C19 joinery, such as panelled doors, doorframes and internal window shutters, is largely complete, except for chimneypieces in front rooms which have been taken out. Simple moulded ceiling cornice in main front rooms and hall. Including front garden area railings with spearheads to shafts and baluster stanchions with own finials. The central gate is C20 wrought iron. Left-hand gate is original gate for tradesmen. This is a largely unaltered early C19 house with its interior features virtually complete. As an unconverted house in the town centre it makes a valuable contribution to the townscape.

Listing NGR: SX7532386036