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Summary

Description

Circa 1790, classical 2-storey, 5-bay house over raised

basement, with later 19th century 2-storey, 2-bay wing set

back at E gable. Original house with polished ashlar S front

over tooled ashlar basement; W return gable rendered and

lined as ashlar. Harled front with tooled ashlar margins to

wing, harl-pointed rear.

Centre door behind Roman Doric portico and approached by

flight of steps oversailing raised basement. Flanking

windows set in shallow round-headed recesses linked at base

and impost level by band courses. 1st floor windows linked by

moulded cill course.

3-bay W return elevation with some blind fenestration. Wide

3-bay rear with slightly advanced centre bay and raised

ground floor windows, originally set in shallow round-headed

recesses similar to front, now altered and partially masked.

Raised basement service block projects at rear under grassed

terrace with rubble frontage and ashlar parapet, centre

segmental-headed entrance with flanking lancets.

12-pane glazing; balustraded die to front and side wallhead;

paired corniced wall-head stacks (single stack to later

wing); shallow piended platform slate roof in main house and

to later wing.

Interior; entrance lobby with corniced and block pedimented

doorpiece; inner stairhall with stairwell rising at rear;

simple balustrade with polished hand-rail; late 18th century

plaster ceiling to stairwell and cornices to ground floor

rooms.

Carved chimneypiece in W ground floor room (original drawing

room?); later 19th century drawing room with contemporary

panelled doors, window shutters ceiling cornice and

chimneypiece.

Statement of Special Interest

"An elegant mansion" (1841). Rear Service entrance on 1st ed.

OS 1872, on which the later drawing room wing does not

appear. Simple mounting block in front of house.

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