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TQ 25 NW BANSTEAD YEW TREE BOTTOM ROAD

3/106 Great Burgh (including attached wall, GV railings,piers,terrace, and steps)

II

Large house, now Office. Built in 1912 by Ernest Newton for the Colman family, builders Benfield and Loxley. Neo-Georgian style. Built of flint with Bath stone dressings and Westmorland slate roof with 4 Bath stone penlled stacks. 2 storeys 7 windows to entrance front, which is not quite symmetrical, articulated 1:1:1:1:2:1. Entrance front has central projecting 2 storey Bath stone porch with elaborate moulded cornice. 1st floor 12-pane sash with keystone flanked by lion's head masks with floral drops. Open pedimented doorcase with panel and floral motifs with attached Ionic half-columns, round-headed doorcase with keystone and pilasters, impost blocks, radiating fanlight and 2 3-panelled doors up 3 steps. Returns have circular windows with keystones. The next bay to each side has 16-pane sash to 1st floor and 30-pane sash to ground floor. To right is a projecting sction under hipped roof and 2 similar sashes. To left the next bay projects and has a round-headed staircase window with circular window below. To extreme left is a further projecting section of 1 bay. Attached to each side is a low Bath stone wall with moulded parapet with 14 square Bath stone piers with moulded cornices and iron railings incorporating Ionic columns in that design. There are 2 massive central gate piers with elaborate urns with flowers and wheat ears. Attached to the right hand side is a service wing in similar style and materials, but of lower elevation. Left side doorcase with moulded architrave, blank panel, brackets and 2 panelled door flanked by circular window. North east front has 4 sashes to 1st floor and ground floor has courtyard arrangement of 2 hipped 1 storey rendered wings linked by verandah. Garden front is symmetrical with 15 sashes, the central 9 set in walls of Bath stone, with wings flint and Bath stone. Centre has 3 12-pane sashes to 1st floor and 2 12-pane sashes with keystones. Central French window with broken swans neck pediment, rectangular fanlight and double doors. Next 3 windows each side are in 2 storey canted bays with rusticated pilasters. 1st floor windows are 12-pane sashes and ground floor windows 18-pane sashes in round-headed openings with keystones. End 3 bays have 12-pane sashes with keystones to 1st floor and 18-pane sashes to ground floor. Attached to the building in Cotswold stone balustrading and 7 steps. South east front has 5 12-pane sashes to 1st floor and 3 18-pane sashes to ground floor. Interior has hall with marble Gibbs surround Venetian type entrance with Ionic columns. The former Dining Room, now a Conference Room has Queen Anne style oak panelling with finely carved swags and baskets of fruit. Four 6-panelled doors with cornice of swags and blank panels above. Plastered ceiling and oak well staircase, possibly a reconstructed C18 staircase with 3 balusters to each tread. 1 turned and 2 fluted columned, scrolled tread ends and curved knop with column. Service staircase has stick balusters

Listing NGR: TQ2340358785

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• Wikidata Q26280172

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)