Description

CHADDESLEY CORBETT CP DRAYTON
SO 97 NW
8/23 Drayton House
25.2.58
GV II*
Country house. Early C18 with some mid-C19 and late C20 alterations. Brick
with painted stone dressings and hipped tile roof. Garden (south-west) front:
two storeys with attic lit by three gabled dormers; moulded sandstone plinth,
painted stone quoins and moulded stone cornice. Seven windows: boxed 15-pane
sashes under rubbed brick heads with keystones. Ground floor with central entrance
has pilastered wooden doorcase with shallow flat canopy, overlight and C20
two-leaf glazed door. Side fronts have bands to ground floor. Interior:
main staircase has turned balusters, moulded hand rail and closed string;
back stair has splat balusters. Sitting room (to right on garden front) has
bolection moulded rectangular panelling. (BoE, p 78; Reid, P: Burke's and
Savills Guide to Country Houses, Volume II, Herefordshire, Shro shire,
Warwickshire, Worcestershire, 1980, p 202).

Listing NGR: SO9072276202

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17549108

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Recommended Books

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