Description

AVON DASSETT AVON DASSETT ROAD SP44NW (East side) 4/13 Nos.1 to 16 Avon Carrow

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Country house, now divided into separate houses. Late C19. Built for Captain Boyle. Ironstone ashlar with moulded plinth and cornices. Tile roofs have moulded gable parapets; ashlar ridge stacks have moulded string courses and cornices and square shafts. Courtyard plan. Tudor style. 2 storeys and attic; 6-window range. Entrance range has recessed one storey and attic centre with 3 chamfered 2-light windows. Moulded 4-centred carriage arches with gables to left and right. Higher 2-window corner pavilions have windows of 3 basket-arched lights set high up. Pyramid roofs have large gabled half dormers with ball finials and C20 casements in basket arches. Louvred square lanterns with lead bell-cast roofs and weathervanes. Front to courtyard similar, but centre has two 5-light windows. One storey and attic wings to courtyard have basket arched plank doors and windows of 3,4 and 5 lights. Some C20 doors, windows and roof dormers inserted. Further taller one storey and attic wings have half-dormers with gable parapets and ball finials to gables and kneelers. Basket-arched doors. Mullioned windows have hood moulds on ground floor. All wings regular but asymmetrical. Entrance front has crenellated parapets throughout. Central 3-storey tower and high 2-storey wing projecting forward from it with shallow gable parapet. Ribbed moulded double doors in richly moulded 4-centred arch under straight head; spandrels have quatrefoils and mouchettes. Large carved panel above has heraldic device, initials CB and CDB and motto. Large hood mould with lozenge stops, stepped up around panel. Canted 2-light oriel window corbelled out above. Leaded stone mullioned windows with Tudor-arched lights. Sill course continued across wall. Coped parapet. Tower behind has 3-light second floor window, buttress and single. Left re-entrant angle has quadrant turret supported on corbelling and buttress carved with owl. Right re-entrant angle has canted projection with single light, and 2-light staircase window with central transom to canted side. Late C20 entrances to left and right, inserted into former windows have panelled doors, glazed panels and hoods, with original hood moulds above. Right entrance has reused Jacobean style caryatids. 3-light window above. Left angle of courtyard has square projection with pyramid roof and 2-light staircase window. Garden front is 8-window range, with one storey one-window wing on left. Balanced but asymmetrical. Ground floor has string course stepped up over windows as hood mould. Entrance in first bay has 36-pane glazed door in moulded architrave, with stone hood on shaped brackets, Central 2-storey tower has octagonal turrets. Very large 6-light canted bay with central transom. 2-light canted bay above. 3-pane glazed door in right turret. Second and seventh bays have 4-lighted canted bays with string courses, in second bay corbelled back to 3-light. Gables behind crenellated parapet have 2-light attic windows. Right corner has 5-light polygonal bay, corbelled back to round 3-light bay on first floor. One-, 2- and 3-light windows. Single-storey wing has 3-light window with hood mould. Left return side has 5-light segmental bay, and 3-light window in gable. Lateral stack to rear has 2 shafts. Interior: central room noted as having 4-centre arched double doors, C16 style panelling and large fireplace with stone hood. No.12 noted as having panelled library. No.3 has fine drawing room with painted C16 style panelling. Chimney breast with Ionic piers on pedestals. French marble fireplace, recently imported. Single-storey wing has similar painted and gilt panelling with Ionic pilasters on pedestals with lozenges. 4-centred arched fireplace. Panelled basket-arch to bay has decorated spandrels. 2-bay Gothic roof has arched-braced truss with paired trefoiled lancets. No.1 has fine mahogany panelled doors, Arthurian stained glass in some windows. Very high quality joinery, bronze window catches etc. (Peter Reid: Burke's and Savill's Guide to Country Houses, Vol.2: Herefordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire, p.129).

Listing NGR: SP4106149877

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