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Whitfield House, Front Street, Wolsingham; Listed building (Wolsingham)

The description that follows is the full English Heritage listing for this building

WOLSINGHAM FRONT STREET NZ 0737 (South side) Wolsingham 39/359 Whitfield House 31.1.67 GV II*

House. Circa 1750. Rendered with plinth, painted ashlar dressings and quoins. Welsh slate roof has stone gable coping and brick and stone chimneys. 3 storeys, 6 windows. 8-panel double door and high patterned overlight in deep panelled reveal, in architrave with hood on large brackets. Sash windows with late C18 glazing bars in plain stone surrounds; moulded coping to ashlar parapet on moulded string, with corner pilasters. Interior: some panelled rooms on ground and first floors; 3 rooms have corner chimneys. Square open-well stair has ramped moulded grip handrail with slender turned balusters, alternate ones fluted, on open string with block tread ends; square panelled newels.

Listing NGR: NZ0744737199

Reference number: D14419
Historical period: Post-medieval (1540 to 1900)
Legal status: Listed Building

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Whitfield House, Front Street, Wolsingham 2002
Whitfield House, Front Street, Wolsingham 2002

Whitfield House, Front Street, Wolsingham 2004
Whitfield House, Front Street, Wolsingham 2004

Whitfield House, Front Street, Wolsingham 2004
Whitfield House, Front Street, Wolsingham 2004

Whitfield House - entrance detail 2002
Whitfield House - entrance detail 2002

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