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Denford Park. Kintburv, Berkshire rsr j i Fig.6: Temporary Building ID diagram (do not scale). -18- RichardKMorrissA Associates, Historic Buildings Consultants, Bromlow House, Bromlow, Shropshire, SY50EA

Denford Park, Kintburv. Berkshire 3.1 Building A: The Original House a _j .O| The historic core of the early-19 th century house is readily identifiable despite the later extensions and is of surprisingly modest proportions. It is two storeys high though the upper floor is not as tall as the ground floor, and the higher status of the ground-floor is exaggerated in the external design by deliberately placing the plain 'first-floor' band course at the sill level of the first-floor windows. It is really just three broad bays wide, and was evidently five, narrower, bays deep. In each of the main elevations, to north and south, the central bay has three openings on the ground floor - windows on the bowed south front and a doorway flanked by windows in the recessed north front. The original side elevations are now butted against by later wings, though the west elevation was originally all external. It is mainly faced in crisply ashlared Bath stone, an oolitic limestone that would have T, presumably been brought to the area along the then newly opened Kennet & Avon Canal, possibly from the important quarries at Coombe Down just to the south of the centre of Bath. •a m On the north, or entrance, front, there is evidence of a different stone used in the rustication of the entrance composition and the masonry of the portico; it is a whiter and harder stone, possibly from Portland. The walls rise from a very plain plinth and apart from the band course referred to above are quite plain. The fairly simple entablature is a little unusual in that the lower 'box-like' section of cornice is of Bath stone but the solid parapet above is a slightly different shade and texture - a discoloured pale grey which could also be Portland. 1 J 3.1.1 The Exterior The principal elevation is the north-facing entrance front, dominated by the projecting semi-circular portico which, as outlined above, seems to be mainly of Portland stone, or a stone of similar colour and properties. J 3.1.1.01 The North, or Entrance, Front The entrance is recessed from the rest of the elevation and the roof of the portico is taken back into the recess to cover the approach to it. The entrance itself is a tripartite composition consisting of three semi-circular arch headed openings set in rusticated masonry - the doorway flanked by tall windows. - -19- "* > Richard K Marriss & Associates, Historic Buildings Consultants, Bromlow House, Bromlaw, Shropshire, SYS OEA

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