Description
C and L Ower dated 1890. Large asymmetrical rogue
Baronial mansion house of striking profile on elevated
site. 2-storey and attic/3-storey coursed bull-faced
rubble with ashlar dressings stop-chamfered openings and
crowstepped gables.
3 bay S elevation with end bays slightly advanced,
left-hand bay 3-storey gabled, rectangular bay of 3 lights
with traceried parapet, blind cheeks, 3-light window with
hoodmould stepped over unsculptured shield panel above,
circular angle turrets with fish-scale roofs. Right hand bay 2-storey and attic, piended 4-light canted bay, prismatic roof with trefoil headed lights: centre bay bipartite windows and pedimented dormer.
W entrance front 2-storey and attic on left, with 2-light
Francois 1ER dormer over 2-light window, 3-storey
machicolated tower to right with nook-shafted angles
rising into slated pyramid spirelet with piended lucarnes
and other enrichments, 2-storey billiard room wing with 4
light oriel and partly arcaded clerestorey projects at NW,
open porch with square Corinthianesque piers and corbelled
shouldered arches in re-entrant angle.
E elevation: crowstepped gable with pyramidal-roofed
rectangular bay set diagonally on angle of advanced 2-
and 1-storey and attic service wing, coursed squared
rubble. Lozenge-plan and gable-end stacks.
N elevation: service court. 4-light mullioned, transomed
and traceried stair oriel.
Piended and gabled slate roofs with fishscale turrets.
Wrought-iron and stone finials. Gable and wallhead stacks.
Sash and case windows, mainly 2-pane glazing pattern.
Interesting INTERIOR: Entrance hall has shallow rib vaults
and rich chimneypiece with atlantes. Impressive Jacobean
stair with fretwork balusters and plaster ceiling. Gothic
oriel with art movement figurative glass at the landing.
Stained glass to billiard room clerestory. Anaglypta
dados, timber doorpieces.
Low boundary walls.