Description
Early to earlier 20th century. 2-storey and attic, 5-bay, English 17th century classical house with single storey pavilions and attached offices. Harl with contrasting red brick details. Base, 1st floor cill and eaves lintel courses, and eaves cornice. Segmental- and round-headed openings; keystones; timber transoms and mullions.
SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 5 windows to each floor (those to ground taller, 4-light transoms) of projecting centre bays below swept and piended roof with 3 original, similarly-roofed, tile-hung dormer windows; flanking, set-back pavilions with keystoned, round- headed, part-glazed, 2-leaf door with
sunburst-astragalled fanlight to left and similarly-detailed window to right.
NE (REAR) ELEVATION: asymmetrical elevation with door in bay to left of centre at ground, window to outer left and further window to outer right; tall round-headed stair window with adjacent flanking smaller narrow lights to right of centre, and 2 window to left at 1st floor. Pavilion to outer right with broad segmental-headed keystoned arch leading to door on return to left. Offices (see below) adjoining to outer left.
NW ELEVATION: ground floor with projecting pavilion with 3 keystoned, round-headed windows, and 4-light transomed window to recessed face at outer right; french window to outer left at 1st floor, further window to outer right and broad brick chimney breast projecting to centre with dominant panelled wallhead stack above cornice.
SE ELEVATION: window to each floor at outer left bay, and ground floor pavilion clasping further projecting office range (see below); brick stack to centre as NW elevation.
Multi-pane, leaded casement windows (square-pane, radial patttern to arch-heads); decoratively-astragalled coloured glass to stair window and flanking lights. Red tiles to roof and swept eaves, deeply overhanging. Large wallhead brick stacks with panelling and keystoned round-arch detailing, corbelled copes and full complement of cans.
INTERIOR: not seen (1999).
OFFICES: single storey, rectangular-plan, piend-roofed range adjoining house at SE.
SW ELEVATION: 2 transomed 4-light windows in slightly recessed bay to right of pavilion (see above).
SE ELEVATION: asymmetrical elevation with variety of elements including slightly advanced piended bay to right.
Multi-pane, leaded, top-opening windows to SW; 8-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows to SE. Red tiles.
BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES: flat-coped, harl and brick boundary walls with square-section brick piers and decorative ironwork gates.