Description

TA 24 NW HORNSEA WILTON ROAD
(north side)

11/63 No 6 (Farrago) and
Washhouse to right

- II

House. 1908-9, by David Reynard Robinson for himself. Bolted steel frame,
with brick walls with stone dressings, mass-concrete floors, slate roof.
Ornamental and pictorial brick and tile cladding both inside and out. Three
storeys, 2 bays, with bathroom and 'gazebo' to front, and rear wing. Canted
bay under separate gable to right. 3-panel main door, behind open gabled
timber porch, to ground floor of bay; 2-pane sashes with sills under
shouldered lintels with projecting vermiculated keyblocks to first floor, 4-
pane sashes with sills to 2nd floor. 'Gazebo' has large rectangular window
opening under swept moulded coping: return cornice has Lombard frieze. 4-
pane sash in architrave to bathroom. The chief interest of the otherwise
conventional exterior elevation of this house lies in the unrestrained and
unconventional use of everyday building materials as decoration. Bands of
glazed bricks run horizontally across the facade with in flat areas of
colour in constantly shifting zig-zags. Patterned tiles are used as
cladding to the 1st floor bathroom which is supported at its outer corner on
two upended salt-glazed sewer pipes. A Biblical scene, some of the elements
some of which are upside down, decorates the gable over the canted bay.
Interior: ground floor. Housekeeper's room to right totally clad in
decorative tilework including a rare graffito example. Exposed bolted-up
frame and concrete infilling to ceiling. Stair to first floor with marble
treads and brown moulded and plain glazed brick risers in stairwell lined
with decorative tiles, some Spanish, in panels. 1st floor: panelled
octagonal drawing room to front of house decorated with repeating stencilled
motif on a painted ground. Re-used late C18 fireplace in Adam style to rear
wall. Landing: tiled floor, tiled dado, wall above dado tiled in large
panels with borders of plain tiles in shifting colours. Rear kitchen:
similar treatment to landing with moulded brown-glazed tiles to skirting,
dado with decorative tiles in small panels, upper wall with large panels of
tiles mostly in Arts and Crafts derived floral designs. Rear scullery and
outside toilet also lined with decorative and some Dutch pictorial tiles,
arranged for the most part in panel form. A distinctive feature of the
floor of this area is the use of broken and cut tiles to form a
kaleidoscopic pattern in contrast to the more formal treatment of walls
elsewhere. Winding stair to 2nd floor has heavy turned newels with acorn
finials, turned balusters, and moulded handrail. Joinery and flooring
throughout the house is of high standard and includes several 4-panel doors
in moulded doorcases. Separate washhouse to right is of similar character;
the interior is clad with decorative and pictorial tiles in panels.

Listing NGR: TA2058247541

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26541530

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