Temple House And Front Wall And Railings

KILBURN HIGH AND LOW HIGH KILBURN SE 5179 8/12 Temple House and front wall with railings 20.6.66 GV II House and front wall and railings. Mid C18 with C20 additions. House of mottled pink brick in English bond to front, English garden wall bond to returns, with blue slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays with rear wing further extended c1980. Symmetrical facade with ashlar ground-floor sill band, first-floor band and deep cornice below high, stone-coped, parapet. Central C18 panelled door in stone architrave with console cornice and sash with glazing bars, exposed sash box and flat brick arch above. To either side on each floor a Venetian-style window under brick arch having central round-arched sash with glazing bars; intersecting in head, flanked by narrow 4-pane side-lights. Ashlar coping and brick stacks to gables. Right return: wing, set back and the left part of herringbone-tooled stone, has c1980 conservatory (not of special interest) masking door under deep lintel with sash with glazing bars to right; 16-pane sash further right; on first floor a round-arched sash to left of two sashes with glazing bars, all windows with exposed sash boxes. c1980 brick addition to right end. Interior: 2-panel doors; in front right room, iron grate in Adam-style wooden fireplace. In front of house, a low rendered wall supports cast-iron railings which have square-section bars, block finials to dog-bars, gadrooned urn-style finials to inner standards and gate, and gate in same style. Wall returns to house, ramping up, with ashlar coping.

Listing NGR: SE5175779676