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Oxclose — Newmarket

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Oxclose — Newmarket
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Detached five-bay two-storey house, built c. 1675, extended and heightened c. 1750 and in nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with box-bay windows flanking central doorway, and single-storey lean-to flanking additions. Hipped artificial slate roof having rendered chimneystacks. Roughcast rendered walls, with coursed rubble exposed under decayed render to additions. Squared-headed window openings having rendered sills and replacement uPVC windows. Box-bay windows have hipped slate roofs and square-headed timber casement windows, flanking central door opening. One-over-one pane timber sliding sash window to west gable. Round-headed door opening having timber panelled door with spoked fanlight and flanked by Ionic-style limestone engaged columns with carved decoration to capitals imitating Ionic style, approached by three limestone steps. Square-headed openings with timber doors to additions. Approached by driveway from the south. Curved entrance with limestone ashlar walls and copings, terminating in square-profile piers with pointed caps and wrought-iron gates, with limestone wheel guards.

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