Description

ST IPPOLLITTS PRESTON ROAD TL 12 NE (West side)

3/65 Tatmore Place - GV II

Country house, now a laboratory and offices. 1908 by John Belcher (1841-1913) for Sir Joseph Child Priestley (1862-1941), non-domestic uses since 1939. Red brick with blue headers in English-bond, stone dressings and windows, steep slate roofs in graduated courses. A compact, large 2-storeys and attics, L-shaped house in Early English Renaissance revival style set in its own grounds facing E and N. Tall stone mullioned and transomed windows. Brick chimneys with 2 pilaster strips to each face. Single-storey hipped rear service wing. Moulded stone doorways with 4-centred arched heads. E entrance front symmetrical with projecting 2-storeys and attics central porch flanked by 2-storeys semi-octagonal bay windows. Round arched entrance with splayed reveals, double keystone and steps continuing up to half glazed double doors. Doric stone order to ground floor, Ionic order to 1st floor with triangular pediment. Gable parapet to porch has corbelled kneelers, finial and balls. Round headed upper lights in windows, transoms to ground floor windows. Stone string courses. Armorial crest over entrance. Badge and '1908' on rainwater heads. N front terraced with 2-storeys rectangular bay windows at each end, gabled centre with semi-octagonal bay, and one window to each side. Interior planned round central staircase. Oak stair round small square well with moulded and splat balusters, arcaded at ground floor, and lit by large 5-lights stained glass window. Segmental arched panelled, stone floored, entrance hall with prominent cornice. 3-panels heavy oak doors in deep moulded doorcases. Drawing room 2 steps down with ceiling of heavy moulded beams and joists giving coffered effect. Panelled to 3/4 height. Arcaded openwork upper part to elaborate chimneypiece in Jacobean style. Elaborate panelling of doors. (Attribution established by Mr. Fleck of Hitchin Museum from local authority building records: for client see Priestley's monument at N end of Preston churchyard nearby).

Listing NGR: TL1828926103

External Links

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