Description

SE 9683 WYKEHAM A 170 (north side)

14/118 North House and attached outbuildings

GV II

Parsonage, Parish Rooms, trap-shed and stable; now Agent's house, garage and outbuildings. 1854. By William Butterfield, for the Wykeham estate. Dressed sandstone with sandstone ashlar quoins and dressings; rear wall of former Parish Room of variegated brick in English garden wall bond. Slate roofs. 2 parallel ranges, slightly offset, with lobby and staircase projection to front. Entrance front: single storey, 3-bay range, the centre bay 2-storied and projecting. Entrance in left return of centre bay has double board doors in a plain chamfered surround with a half-hexagonal head. Single tall sash to ground floor of centre bay. 2-light mullion and transom staircase window above in a pointed quoined surround. The upper lights have foiled pointed heads with a trefoil above. To ground-floor right is a 4- light window in flat-arched surround with broach-stopped, chamfered mullions. Windows are tall sashes, the 2 centre extending to ground level, and have foiled, pointed heads. Relieving arch over. Steeply-pitched main roof, half-hipped to left, with steep, half-hipped gable to centre. Right return front: 2 gable ends, the left projecting beyond the right, the right half-hipped. The ground-floor window to right gable wall is of 4 pointed, foiled lights in a flat arched surround. Both first-floor windows have pointed, quoined surrounds and are of 3 lights. Left return front: 2 gable ends, the left projecting beyond the right, the right half-hipped. Ground- floor window to right gable wall is of 2 pointed lights in a pointed quoined surround. Tall narrow sashes to first floor. 3-light mullion window to return wall of left gable in quoined surround, with a relieving arch above. Variably placed ridge stacks with steep offsets. Parish Room: single storey. 2 steep gables with 3-light chamfered mullion windows. End left stack to steeply-pitched roof. Interior. Open-well, closed-string staircase with trefoil-section handrail and turned balusters. The same balusters form a screen beside the stairs leading from the entrance lobby to the hall. Hall doors are of 8 recessed panels. Ground-floor room to front right, entered from entrance lobby level, has panelled hung-shutter boxes, and moulded dado rail and cornice. Ground-floor room to front left has a shuttered window recess with window seat, and built-in bookshelves over panelled cupboard door. Ground-floor room to rear right has a replacement fireplace with Gothick-arched panelled jambs and a corbelled mantleshelf; panelled hung-shutter boxes. P Thompson, William Butterfield, 1971.

Listing NGR: SE9658283459

External Links

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