Description

CORSLEY DEEP LANE
ST 84 NW
(east side)
7/81
Corsley House
11.9.68
GV II
Detached house. Mid C18, rebuilt c1820 for Nathaniel Barton.
Limestone ashlar C19 range, coursed rubble stone C18 front, Welsh
slate hipped roof, ashlar stacks with moulded cappings. Greek
Revival. Two-storey, 5-window early C19 front. Central 3-panelled
door within portico with reeded columns and frieze with lion masks,
two 15-pane sashes either side. Plat band to first floor; five 12-
pane sashes. Pilasters with Greek key motif and stele carried up
to cornice and frieze to parapet with shallow pediment. Right
return has 2-storey bow with 15-pane sashes to ground floor and 12-
pane sashes to first floor, two tripartite sashes to right, first
floor has three segmental-headed sashes, pilasters as front. Left
return is C18 front with central planked door and flat stone hood
on brackets, 3-light mullioned and transomed casement either side,
additional one to left, first and second floors have three 3-light
mullioned and transomed windows and cross windows over door. Two-
storey service range to left in similar style with leaded mullioned
casements, balustraded parapet. Picturesque C19 cottage attached to
left has door with 4-fielded panels and 2-light casements with
wooden hoodmoulds, double gabled front with bargeboards. Rear has
12-pane sashes, C20 flat roofed extensions.
Interior: C18 range has lower ceilings, 6-panelled doors, window
shutters with fielded panels. C19 range has open well stairs with
cast-iron balustrade and moulded wreathed handrail in same style as
that at Sturford Mead (q.v.) diagonally laid marble hall floor.
Ground floor has 6-panelled doors in moulded architraves, moulded
plaster ceiling cornices, the dining room has shallow barrel
vaulted ceiling with moulded plaster ribs ornamented with animals,
Adam-style fireplace. First floor has plaster ceiling cornices,
doors in reeded architraves. Very likely that the same architect
designed the rebuilding of this house and the building of Sturford
Mead.

Listing NGR: ST8279045528

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26574358

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)