CPAT Regional Sites & Monuments Record

PRN 42184 - Elmhurst
Listed Building 16726 (II )

Listed building.

The following is from Cadw's Listed Buildings database

Set back from the road in grounds on the W side of the Police Station.

The house was built for Miss Clive, sister to Archdeacon Clive, and niece of Robert, Lord Clive, c1840.

Simple domestic gothic style. Random local sandstone rubble with painted freestone dressings and slate roof with coped gables and axial and gable end stacks. 2 storeys, 3-window range with secondary advanced wing to the right. Advanced central gable houses entrance in embattled and buttressed shallow porch with depressed 4-centred arch and paired partly glazed inner doors. 3-light mullioned and transomed window with small panes above the entrance. Flanking bays have tall 2-light mullioned and transomed windows with small panes on each floor. Similar fenestration in gable end of advanced right hand wing.

A fine example of the domestic gothic style favoured for larger houses in the mid C1

Sources:-
Cadw Listing database , 2000 , ,
Jones, N W, Silvester, R J & Britnell, W J , 2003 , Montgomery Canal Conservation Management Strategy. Landscape Archaeology Assessment , CPAT Report 550 .

Events:-
Assessment CPAT / 2003(31/08/03) -
Desktop study CPAT / 2003(31/08/03) -
HLC CPAT / 2003(31/08/03) -

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