Description

PENSAX CP PENSAX SO 76 NW

6/169 Pensax Court

27.4.83

GV II

House. C18 origins, rebuilt c1840, extended 1882 and restored late C20. Brick, partly stuccoed, plain tiled roofs with decorative ironwork to ridge and massive stacks, some having chamfered corners. Square plan with projecting east wing and central clock tower. Two storeys and attics; multi-gabled with pierced scalloped bargeboards and pendant finials: South front elevation: three bays articulated by gables, each having a ground floor canted bay with cornice (added late C19) and a large first floor window with cambered head and hood mould; central first floor window of five lights, outer bays of four lights; 3-light casement in attic of left gable; circular traceried window in attic of right gable; two large chimneys in valleys. North entrance elevation has a twin-gabled projection to right originally attached to a kitchen wing, now demolished; 4-panelled door and 3-light first floor casement beneath left gable and pointed attic lights-with Y-tracery; left of the gabled projection the fenestration is irregular; three ground floor cross-casements, 3-light first floor casement, large stairlight with 4-centred head and Y-tracery; two gabled dormers with pointed lights and Y-tracery; gabled balustered timber porch to left and studded door within. Octagonal clock tower has a clockface on its north and south elevations, a domical roof and ball-finial. Interior: noted as having open well staircase with cast iron balustrade; ground floor room to right of south front has an ornate ceiling cornice and a marble fireplace with foliated panels and corbels. The east wing was added in 1882; part brick, part timber-framed with rendered infill on ashlar base; plain tiled roof; single bay; single storey with half-dormers and basement. Framing has lower rectangular panels and upper concave-lozenge panels; jettied at east gable end with decorative herringbone truss above and the date "1882" inscribed on the tie-beam; north elevation has a large gabled half-dormer with 4-light mullion and transom window; beneath steps with a simple cast iron balustrade lead down to a basement door. Some C18 brickwork in the north entrance elevation was the only external evidence visible of an earlier structure on the site that must have been incorporated into the C19 building. The house was being restored at the time of survey (April 1985). (BoE, p 235).

Listing NGR: SO7248068980

External Links

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