Description

This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 1 September 2020:

DONHEAD ST. MARY

ST 92 SW

7/34

CHARLTON

(east side)

Charlton House

GV

II

Detached house. Circa 1830. Rendered, Welsh slate hipped roof, rendered brick stacks. Square house with rear service wing. Two-storey, three-window; sashes. Central eight-panelled double doors with side lights, in Tuscan porch with coupled square columns and plain frieze, 16-pane sash either side in recessed arched panels. First floor has three 16-pane sashes, roof on deep eaves. Right return, garden front has four French windows within cast-iron verandah, four 16-pane sashes to first floor. Left return has 16-pane sashes. Two storey rear service wing is ashlar with four bays of twelve-pane sashes and two-light casements or nine-pane sashes to first floor.

Interior has entrance hall with open well stairs with stick balusters and moulded and wreathed handrail, main reception rooms have six-panelled doors in moulded architraves, floral plaster ceiling margins, window shutters.

Reputed to have been built for Lord Winford, a Lord Chief Justice.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26478813

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