Description

FREMINGTON FREMINGTON SS 53 SW 2/31 Fremington Manor House including entrance gateway attached to west side (formerly listed as Fremington 6.7.76 House) GV II*

Manor house, with gateway attached. 1881 by E Newton. Brick with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs concealed by tall parapet above modillion cornice. Scattered brick stacks with moulded caps with recessed panelled sides to shafts, the principal stacks corbelled Lombard-style at top. Overall large rectangular plan orientated north/south. The long west side is the entrance side and contains the entrance hall and staircase. The rectangular shape of the plan is broken on the opposite east side by a 2-storey bow and a 3-bay projection. The east side extends further north than the west side, screening the L-shaped stable block which has been converted for habitation. The opposite south end is treated as an imposing symmetrical garden front. Wrenaissance style. 2 storeys and attic storey. Symmetrical south facade of 7 bays with ashlar quoins and stone balustrade to parapet over central 2 bays surmounted by two classical urns. All windows have eared bolection moulded architraves with grotesque head keystones with sill bands supported by moulded console brackets. All 18 paned hornless sashes, the upper storey windows with cambered heads. Central doorway with fluted pilasters with Corinthian capitals. Large central grotesque head keystone, dentilled cornice and pediment with short colonnettes, the wings of which form grotesque heads, flanking central achievement. 15-paned three- quarter glazed door with 2-panelled base. Lead rainwater heads and pipes flank the 3 central bays. East facade: 1:3:2:3:5 windows. The left-hand 3 windows form a 2-storey bow with giant fluted Corinthian moulded brick pilasters and a moulded brick panelled frieze at first floor level, the 3 central panels containing moulded brick crests. The right-hand 3 windows break forward. All the window openings have rubbed flat brick arches and tall sashes with glazing bars except for ground floor French windows in bow. At the north-east corner is a pedimented bell tower with semi-circular arched bell- opening at the top with keystone. Brick courtyard wall extending north with embattled parapet corbelled out Lombard-style. West side has clock turret to centre of former stable block with cupola. Principal west facade divided into 7 bays by plain pilasters, a short bay at left end with sash on each floor, then 2 bays with 2 sashes on each floor, centre bay with 2 sashes above impressive doorway with large decorative fanlight with heavily moulded surround, above foliated frieze with large grotesque head to keystone, fluted pilasters with Corinthian capitals flanking heavy door with faceted lozenge design and 4 paned sidelights. The three right end bays have a round-arched stair window to centre, with single sash on each floor to left and blind bay to right. The entrance gateway extends westward from the centre of this facade and has a semi-circular arched gateway with winged pediment above the dentilled cornice. Interior: some Cl7 and C18 panelling, overmantles and doors bought for the new house. The entrance hall, main staircase hall and drawing room (formerly a ballroom) being the finest rooms. The entrance hall has heavy C17 style panelling with elaborate chimneypiece of 2 tiers of decorative panelling, the lower tier with blind semi-circular arched tracery flanked by carved caryatids and fluted Ionic pilasters, the latter also to each side of the fireplace. Tall niche with carved keyblock to south wall with linen fold decoration to the double doors to left. Trabeated ceiling with carved bosses at the intersections. The rear of the entrance door has C17 scratch-moulded framing and ledging. Stair hall has dog-leg staircase with heavy barley sugar balusters and newels which have flame finials, and trailing foliage to the carved toprail and moulded handrail. Panelled walls and decorative plasterwork ceiling, rectangular with large foils at each end, central mythical beast and foliated frieze. Door surround at head of stairs with engaged shafts and multifoiled decorative archway. Former ballroom has heavy modillion cornice, Adam style oval centrepiece with spaced fluted pilasters with ornate capitals with rectangular panel flanked by roundels depicting mythical scenes on north wall and similar panel and single roundel on south wall. Dado panelling and chimneypiece flanked by pilasters with double rams heads to capitals and diminishing drops. 2 door surrounds at west end with painted decoration to the architraves and ornate pediments to each side of central panel with similar decorative pediment. Some of the bedrooms on south side contain panelling and one has C18 Adam style overmantle with central urn in scrolling foliage surround.

Listing NGR: SS5123832554

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