Description
Thomas Rickman of Birmingham, architect, 1825 incorporating
18th century house: additions by Peddie and Kinnear 1869
(dated on rainwater heads). 2-storey mansion house, Tudor
Gothic, basement to north, single storey service range to
northwest and inner courtyard open at west. All red ashlar.
Some windows canted, mullioned, and/or transomed,
particularly on additions: 1825 windows mostly in shallow-
recessed panels. South elevation: 2-stage massive square
entrance tower with corbelled and crenellated parapet, hood-
moulded, pointed doorway with ornamented spandrels blind
panel above, cusped-headed sidelights in ogival margins; 3
tall lights above in round-arched margins, also with cusped
heads. 2 symmetrical bays with ground floor cross-windows
flank tower; advanced gable left, former conservatory beyond
has ashlar mullions and transomes, ball-finialed parapet
with cusped openings; roof now flat. Other elevations
asymmetrical, with advanced/recessed bays, some gabled: some
windows in projecting bays: segmental-headed west-facing
door below modern fire escape. Shaped skews. Stacks mostly
grouped octagonal flues: roofed with graded slates. Square
inner and outer gatepiers polished white granite with
projecting caps, quadrant walls bullfaced red ashlar with
crenellated coping.