Description

WITHERIDGE
SS 81 NE
6/60 Colleton Hall
- II
Small country house in wooded setting. Early C19 Rubble core, stuccoed and
colourwashed, tall rendered stacks, 2 groups of 3, one set singly.
Plan and development: single room depth with 3 wings projecting onto the garden
front, to the extreme right of the front service rooms and added folly. Internal
plan of 2 principal reception rooms flanking a large entrance hall. Gothick style.
Exterior: 2 storeys, 1:1:1:2:3 windows, casements with glazing bars and marginal
lights, second bay from left in a projecting wing with coping, fourth bay in gabled
projecting wing, 2 point-arched windows on the ground floor, Y-tracery Bays to
each side of projecting wing, that to left canted, iron balconies set over. C20
casements to right. To the extreme right of the front a late C19 folly or garden
room in a loose medieval style with a conical roof, narrow semi-circular headed
openings, door opening with a plank door. Principal door opening to the rear
created in the mid C20, pair of half-glazed doors.
Interior with plaster Gothick vaulting with ribs and bosses to the entrance hall, 2
archways with pointed arch heads and moulded surrounds; this hall with a mid C20
staircase inserted in neo-Georgian style, at the same time the remainder of the
interior was altered and other neo-Georgian features were incorporated including
chimneypieces.

Listing NGR: SS8536416326

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26401120

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)