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Summary

Description

Mid 18th century country house, considerably altered and

extended in 1899-1900. Dick Peddie and Washington Browne.

2-storey, basement and attic. Rectangular main block with

neo-Georgian wings. Red sandstone rubble with ashlar

dressings, raised base course, rusticated quoins to wings,

eaves cornice, slate roof.

S ENTRANCE FRONT: symmetrical; 5 recessed bays flanking

advanced gabled wings with 4-light canted windows basement to

1st floor and Venetian windows in gable heads. Moulded

architraves to door and windows. Open pedimented Roman Doric

doorpiece. Panelled double doors and decorative semi-circular

fanlight. 12-pane glazing pattern. Flight of steps with short

balustrade at top. Balustraded basement area with eagle

statues on end dies. Three 4-light timber dormers with

pediments over centre lights (1899-1900).

E AND W SIDE ELEVATIONS: 3 light bowed bays to ground floor,

2 dormers as at front. Further bow on W side abutting

extension block to N.

REAR ELEVATION: random window arrangement. Mullioned,

lead-paned stair window inserted 1900. Slate hung piended

dormers. Extension to W with lower eaves line and piend roof.

Partly harled. Extension to E later, harled, 2-storey and

basement block with corner turret, mansard attic, slated.

INTERIOR: some 18th century interior work remaining, mixed

with refurbishment of 1900. Original cantilevred oval stair;

unusual wrought-iron balustrade and timber hand rail.

Decorative fanlights and curved double panelled doors in

vestibule. Fluted panelled shutters. Decorative Adamesque

plasterwork and classical chimneypieces with marble slips to

main ground floor rooms.

STABLES: 1899-1900 with later alterations. Dick Peddie and

Washington Browne. Single-storey and attic U-plan stables

with walls enclosing courtyard. Red sandstone rubble with

raised band course and window margins. Slated roofs.

E-W BLOCK: raised, with wave-topped dormers to courtyard.

Arched carriage entrance to left of courtyard; windows to

right.

E BLOCK: doubling as Lodge by gates to Back Road. E, front

with 2-light and 3-light windows; arched doorway with

hoodmould. Two 4-light timber dormers with semi-circular

gable heads above centre.

W BLOCK: stable openings altered for habitation. Hay loft

dormer in N courtyard corner. S gable upper door blocked and

altered to window with stair removed.

WALLED GARDEN: 18th century. Red sandstone rubble walls

abutting Back Road. Gibbsian open pedimented doorpiece,

centre S wall, on Doric columns. Decorative wrought-iron work

in arch and upper door.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: red sandstone rubble walls to N

and S. Coped quadrant walls and square capped ashlar piers to

S. Circular rubble piers with quadrant walls to N.

LODGE: 1899-1900. Dick Peddie and Washington Browne with

later extension to E.

Single storey L-plan made Z-plan by extension.

Squared snecked sandstone rubble; ashlar dressings. Harled

new work. Entrance porch in W re-entrant angle. 12 pane

glazing pattern. Piended slate roof.

Statement of Special Interest

Formerly known as Winterfield House. Pair of flanking

pavilion wings to original house, demolished by 1899.

Photograph showing the house with wings, late 19th century,

kept at the school.

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