Description

SU 34 NW PENTON GRAFTON CLANVILLE

4/10 Clanville House 20.12.60 GV II*

Large house. Early C18, with early and mid-C19 rear additions, and C20 minor additions at each side. Brick and tile. Wide symmetrical front (east) of 2 storeys and attic, 4 windows. Ripped roof, with 3 hipped dormers (with casements), wood fully-moulded modillion eaves cornice. Walls of red brickwork in header bond, cambered rubbed arches to the openings with projecting stone keys, plinth (dropped on either side of the central doorway): above the doorway is a rendered niche, with red brick frame, stone keys impost and base blocks. Sashes with thick glazing bars, in exposed frames. The doorway has a plain frame with cambered head, enclosing a fanlight, a moulded pediment hood on carved brackets, with flat soffit containing a panel, and 4-Panelled door. At the north side is a C20 single-storeyed wing of brick and tile, at the south a C20 2-storeyed wing with a flat roof. At the rear there is a 2- storeyed early C19 block, nearly-symmetrical of 3 windows, with hipped tile roof, walls of horizontal flint panels, brick dentil eaves, quoins, 1st floor band, flat rubbed arches to the ground-floor, plinth: sashes in reveals and a wide glazed door. To the south is a narrower mid C19 extension (on the same front) of 2 storeys and attic, I window, with a hipped roof, walls of stretcher bond, Victorian sashes and a rectangular bay. At the north end of the rear of the house is a C20 2-storeyed semi-circular projection. Inside, the entrance hall has dado panelling, the lower flight of a fine staircase, a chimney piece, and panelled doors in architraves.

Listing NGR: SP3273843631

External Links

• Wikidata Q17539562

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