Description
Circa 1830. Large single storey villa over raised basement,
with some later attic fenestration in N elevation. Coursed
rubble with tooled and polished ashlar dressings.
N entrance front; tetrastyle portico fronts advanced
centre 3 bays; centre pilastered doorpiece with monogramed
cartouche with coat of arms above, small flanking attic
windows. 3 bays either side of portico have later raised
and pedimented dormers; advanced outer 2-bay wings with lower
roof level extend with 5-bay return elevations E and W.
S garden elevation; 7-bay frontage with wide projecting bowed
3-window centre bay with shalllow bowed piended roof fronted
by shallow terrace; advanced canted 3-window outer bays with
lower piended roofs. Front and some W return gable windows
have decorative cast-iron guards.
2- and 4-pane glazing, though some 9- and 12-pane survives in
raised basement. Symmetrical corniced stacks with decorative
pottery cans; piended roofs, with platform and centre domed
roof light to central block. Various service wings extend at
east, masked from S front by high coped wall fronted by
range of glass houses.
2-storey Italianate water tower.
Interior: entrance hall leads to top lit central hall under
dome with decorative plaster ribbing and festoons; coffered
plaster ceilings to main public rooms; corniced and moulded
door pieces; panelled doors and dados; black marble chimney
piece in former dining room; vaulted corridors.