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The Nook — French Furze Road

officer's house
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The Nook — French Furze Road
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Detached four-bay single-storey former officer’s house, c.1830, retaining original fenestration comprising single-bay single-storey entrance bay to centre with single-bay single-storey flat-roofed projecting open porch to front, single-bay single-storey gabled advanced flanking bay to right (south-east) having single-bay single-storey canted bay window, single-bay single-storey gabled advanced flanking bay to left (north-west) having single-bay single-storey canted bay window and single-bay single-storey recessed end bay to left (north-west). Reroofed, c.1950. Now in private residential use. Gable-ended roofs (gable-fronted to advanced flanking bays). Replacement artificial slate, c.1950, in diamond-pattern courses. Crested ridge tiles. Red brick chimney stacks. Timber eaves and bargeboards. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Flat-roofed to porch. Materials not visible (probably timber). Rendered walls over timber-frame construction. Square-headed window openings (including to canted bay windows). Rendered sills. Original timber casement windows. Square-headed door opening behind projecting open porch having lattice work timber panels. Timber panelled door. Clay tiles to porch. Set back from line of road in own grounds. Roughcast boundary wall to front.

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