Description

TQ 92 SW PLAYDEN

16/77 Saltcote Place

21.2.86
II

Country house. Circa 1905 by Sir Reginald Blomfield in a Neo-Caroline style.
Red brick with plastered dressings and slate and tiled roofs. Z-plan, with
service wing in arm to rear and tower at junction. Entrance front: 2 storeys
with attic. Roof with several courses of slates on lowest slopes, balustrade
and cupola. Irregular brick stacks and 5 hipped dormers. Irregular fenestration
of glazing bar sashes with a Venetian stair window to left of centre at betwixt
floor level. Doubled half-glazed doors with transom light over and projecting
columned porch with large segmental open pediment over, to right of centre.
L-plan service wing projecting to left with cornice, ramped parapets, globe
finials at corners and large square stack on one corner in angle between main
and service blocks. Garden front: 2 storeys with attics. Central 3 bay pedimented
projection with keyed thermal window and swags below in tympanum, symmetrical
pair of ridge brick stacks, 2 hipped dormers, roof balustrade and cupola, both
visible from entrance front. Regular 5 window front, glazing bar sashes, with
most in centre on first and ground floors, and in outer bays on ground floor
tripartite, the outer ground floor pain incorporating central French casements.
Full width single-storey veranda of 5 bays with Doric columns and balustrade
over. Side elevations to this front both have two storey flat-headed rounded
bays with stone and brick chequer between floors. Interior: various neo-Adam
fireplaces.

Listing NGR: TQ9238121347

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26512352

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