Site Record

Large Victorian country house retaining its character and detail (with Elizabethan origins). Rebuilt or remodelled 1n 1865-6 by J W Walton, incorporating fragments of earlier work.

Large asymmetrical house in simple Tudor style, of 2 storeys and attics, with entrance front to N and garden front to S. Constructed of red brick with stone dressings under slate roofs with grouped brick stacks. Detail includes raised stone copings to gables with kneelers and pyramidal finials, stone quoins, brick plinth (stone to W range), and square-headed stone mullioned windows, mainly with transoms. These have ovolo-moulded mullions and contain renewed casement windows with quarry glazing. Entrance front has 3 gabled blocks, stepped back from L to R, with lower service range adjoining to L. Gabled porch to L of central block with Tudor-arched stone doorcase; blank tablet above supporting a light. Flat-headed ribbed wooden door with iron strapwork inside porch. Six-light window to 1st floor and blocked light to attic; small stairlight to R in narrow flat-roofed bay. Block to L has 5-light window with hoodmould to ground floor, 2 cross windows above and a short 4-light window to the attic. Between L and central gables is a stack with diagonally-set partly attached shafts. R return of central block has small window to each storey. Block to R has 4-light window with hoodmould to ground floor and smaller 4-light window above. The service range has 2 windows to ground; 3-light to R and 2-light to L, and a short 6-light window to attic storey.

The W side of the house has an added bay window to centre with hipped roof and containing a 5-light window; 2-light window above. Flanking lateral stacks, with 3 octagonal shafts to L, and stone quoins and 2 diagonally-set shafts to R. To the far R is a single light blocked with brick and a 2-light window above. Garden front has central range flanked by 2 advanced gabled wings. Late C20 single-storey conservatory in front of central range, of red brick with parapets and stone dressings. Double doors and flanking lights have decorative glazing with quarries. To the 1st floor is a short 11-light window; stack to R with 4 octagonal shafts. L gable end has 4-light windows to each storey, as N end of range. Added canted bay window with parapets to R gabled wing; 4-light window above. Truncated stack to R return with lead capping. Service range has 2-light window to L with 3 light-window above, and a 3-light gabled oriel on 5 stone corbels to R, possibly later. E end of house is 2-gable with linking range and faces into a small service courtyard. Projecting stack to L gable end with 3 truncated shafts with moulded caps. To L is a small light to upper storey; to R is a 3-light window. Linking range has a 2-light window over 3-light window. Advanced R gable end has C20 door in L return with light above. The gable has a 3-light window with 2 small lights below. The courtyard is enclosed by tall red brick walls to N and S sides with moulded stone copings and altered openings. At the E end, they join a small 2-storey brick house (originally for domestic staff?) with a corbelled stack to S side with 2 octagonal shafts, similar ridge stack to N, saw-tooth dentilled eaves, moulded string course, plain stone dressings to openings with replaced doors and wooden casement windows.

(Source: Cadw Listings database) S Garfi 15/11/06