Description

EATON BISHOP CP LOWER EATON SO 44 SW 1/70 Lower Eaton House

GV II House. Mid-C18 with mid- to late C19 alterations and additions. Brick with Bath stone stacks. Cellar and two storeys. Rectangular plan aligned north-west/south-east with subsidiary block to south-east. South-west elevation has 2:3:2 windows, C19 plate glass sashes with dressed shouldered heads and chamfered jambs. Ground floor windows have in addition shafts with fillets and dog-tooth decoration to heads. Gabled centre part has brick relieving arches with 2-centred heads and stone Lombard frieze with trefoil-headed corbels. Wings have cornices with dog-tooth decoration. C19 porch has semi-circular arch with shafts and foliated capitals. Joggled brickwork to sides of arch, two-leaved door with six panels to each leaf and spherical lamp on wrought iron bracket. Stone foliated frieze. One shouldered window beneath 2-centred super-arch to each return. Mid-C20 doorway in lowered window opening to right with six-panelled door and mid- C20 canopy. Attached to either side is a brick quadrant wall, that to the right with a steel 2-light C20 casement. To the rear right behind the quadrant wall is a large two-storey C19 wing. Rear elevation has 3 + 3:3:3 windows. Upper floor of left part has trefoil-headed openings, beneath which is a canted ground floor bay window. Centre of main part has loggia with three trefoil-headed arches supported on columns. The spandrels have open trefoils. Above are four heads in roundels. Within the loggia are four turquoise plaques depicting putti in various situations including pyramids, steam engine locomotives with punkahs and in a jungle with a tiger. South elevation has trefoil-headed first floor windows and a four-bay wooden conservatory, probably late C19 with pedestals supporting five Corinthian pilasters. Interior has oak two-flight C18 newel staircase with turned balusters incorporating square lower sections. Ceiling above staircase has egg and dart mouldings to cornice. Flanking walls to staircase have two eared surrounds, also with egg and dart decoration, presumably to accommodate former paintings. Six-panelled C18 doors. Art Nouveau brass lamp to landing. Early central heating panels beneath several windows and in staircase lobby have marble tops and cast iron lattice grills with twisted columns. Principal central room has C18 cornice, mid- to late C19 plaster fireplace, C19 poly- chromatic tiled floors, glazed pine front door and late C19 curtain rods with brass concealed runners on their undersides. Library to north has C18 panel- ling with later insertions and large late C19 curtain rod with huge carved wooden garlands to each end. (BoE, p 126).

Listing NGR: SO4482940248

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