Description

SU 75 NW ROTHERWICK CP -

4/118 Main and subsidiary blocks 16.3.84 at Tylney Hall

GV II*

Country House in landscaped park. 1879 by Edward Birchall, greatly extended by R. Selden Wornum for Lionel Phillips, 1899-1901, and again for the same patron, 1901-1904, by Robert Weir Schultz. Red brick with Bath stone dressings and some brick diapering. Plain tiled roofs. 2 storeys and attics. Entrance front: E-plan with short projecting gabled porch in centre. Six flat-headed dormers in centre with other to wings. Various tall Elizabethan-style brick stacks on or behind ridges. Irregular fenestration of mullioned and transomed windows of varying sizes with varying numbers of iron-framed casements. Central block with wide single-storey canted bay to left and two-storey projecting from shallow, gabled two and a half-storey wing in re-entrant angle to right. Central projecting 2½ storey porch with Flemish-type gable, stone-coped with decorative finial. Triumphal arch entrance motif with coupled Doric half-columns on ground floor with full entablature carrying coupled Ionic half-columns with full entablature on first floor carrying stone surround to attic window with strapwork cresting, Mullioned and transomed first-floor window over round-arched entrance withe decorative key-stone and doubled doors. Return wing projecting to left with irregular fenestration and two canted bays with stone inset lozenge decorated parapets. Ballroom wing projecting to right linked by low one-storey block with central gable over doorway. Three shallow 2-storey bays reaching up into parapet, with stone dressings and ball- finials on parapet. Transom and mullion windows on three sides of each bay reaching almost into parapet. North-west elevation: Ballroom block to left with similar elevation as to court, except for red brick tower at left-hand corner with stone cornice and ogee lead roof. Low block in centre with open stone loggia of two bays with round arches on columns and open strapwork parapet, enclosing spiral staircase with filligree traceried balustrade and segmental arched openings and entrance, leading to gallery over fireplace in ballroom. End of main block to right with two large canted two-storeys bays with embossed pilaster orders, decrated entablatures and lozenge-decorated parapets. Two lunette gables surmounting parapet with stone lozenge decoration and decorative finials. South- west elevation: Five hipped dormers behind parapet and various Elizabethan-style moulded brick chimneys. Four projecting gabled bays of 2 1/2 storeys each, one at each end and two linked in centre, all with lunette gables except that to right of centre, gabled with kneelers. Large stone-dressed and pilaster-flanked mullioned and transomed windows on lefthand gabled projections. 3-bay Quattrocento-style Ionic arcaded loggia between on ground floor. Deep canted bay with transomed and mullioned windows on both floors on projection to right of centre. Projecting one- storey conservatiory with pilastered stone frame and large mullioned and transomed windows projecting between gabled projections to right. Kitchen block: Single-storey red brick courtyard to south-east in a more utilitarian style, hidden on the garden side by low Dutch-gabled blocks and garden wall with brick and timber pergola against west face. Stable courtyard: Further to south-east. 2 storey blocks, seemingly only single storey with basement on exterior show-facade to east. Central double-Doric columned round-arched entrance with kneelered gable and clock under stone hood above. Courtyard side of arch to match. Curving stone walls, ramped up to entrance, with low corniced piers and ball-finials, flanking entrance. Two large half-timbered gables flanking entrance, with two small louvres with concave pyramidal inside each gable, plus one over entrance and one to left of lefthand gable. All with gutters of wood treated as moulded eaves cornices. Courtyard with first-floor gallery and wooden balustrade around, on stone Tuscan columns. Block opposite entrance of 1 1/2 storeys with diapered brickwork. Central Dutch-gabled projection and concave gables over single semi-dormer to left and two to right. Linked to tower at right, dominating garden side of the service block. Red brick with black brick diaperwork. Irregular fenestration with recessed paired colonnade on top storey with segment-headed windows behind. Deep stone modillioned cornice to decorative mansard roof with tall cupola. Square buttressed stack at north-east corner and entrance through moulded stone archway on garden side, up flight of stairs. Laundry courtyard: further court- yard of even more utilitarian red brick to south-east with gabled and half-timbered entrance-way. Interior: Staircase in early C17 Jacobean style with strapwork balustrade and decorated newel-posts, the landing above carried on triple Doric columns. Later C17-style wood panelling. Drawing room with later C17-style panelling, carved drops and compartmentalised plaster ceiling. Music Room with Rococo-style boiseries and coved plaster ceiling with rocaille work. Many other rooms decorated in a variety of C17 and C18 styles. Panelled room at top of eastern tower probably a smoking room. Sources: C.Aslett, The Last Country Houses, New Haven and London, 1982, 33, 143, 330, iv, Fig. I. D Ottewill, Robert Weir Schultz (1860-1951): An Arts and Crafts Architect, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, 22, 1979, 100. Academy Architecture, 1904 (I), 46-47, 49. Architectural Review, 16, 1904, 80-85, 117, 122-25. Building News, 9. Dec. 1904, 829.

Listing NGR: SU7179856031

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