Description

SO 84 SE CROOME D'ABITOT CROOME COURT

3/12 Croome Court (formerly listed as Croome Court with Stables, 11.8.52 Garden Room or Temple, Principal Lodge, Lodge on west, and Panorama)

GV I

Country House 1751-2 by Lancelot (Capability) Brown with advice from Sanderson Miller. Interior work from 1760 by Robert Adam. Built for 6th Earl of Coventry. Limestone ashlar Palladian mansion with principal North and South fronts of 11 bays. Basement and 2 storeys with 3 storey end pavilions. Slate roofs, pyramidal over corner towers and 3 paired axial chimneys, pair linked by arches. 1-3-3-3-1 division with pedimented centre to North and fine pro- jecting Ionic tetrastyle portico to South. Modillion cornice and balustrade to flanking wings. Moulded window architraves enriched with flat cornices on ground floor main range, pediments to North front pavilions and Venetian win- dows to South front pavilions. Roman Doric curved pediment doorcase to North front, flat cornice on consoles over South door. Chamfered quoins to project- ing centre and to end pavilions. Fine 2 armed balustraded stair to North door and broad straight flight up to South door flanked by cast stone sphinxes. INTERIOR partly Brown with plasterwork by G Vassalli, partly Robert Adam with plaster by J Rose Jr. 2 Adam rooms removed to New York and London. Spine corridor with stone stair at East end with moulded underside and iron balu- strade. NORTH SIDE: Entrance hall with 4 fluted Doric columns and Palladian moulded doorcases, to East, dining-room with plaster cornice and ceiling, original pelmets, to West, billiard-room with fielded panelling, plaster cor- nice and rococo fireplace. These rooms, probably decorated c.1758-9, probably by Brown. SOUTH SIDE: Fine central Saloon with elaborate deep coved ceiling with 3 embellished panels and rich cornice, fine Palladian doorcases and 2 marble Ionic columned fireplaces. Room probably by Brown and Vassalli. To East former tapestry room now dismantled; ceiling a copy of original by R Adam and J Rose. Beyond, former library by R Adam, largely dismantled; marble fire- place. To West, drawing-room with shallow rococo-style plaster and marble fireplace. At WEST END, Gallery by R Adam 1764, with half-hexagonal bay to garden, elaborate octagonal panelled ceiling by J Rose, plaster reliefs of griffins, painted grisaille panels and marble caryatid fireplace by J Wilton. Attached at East end, SERVICE WING: L plan, red brick and stone with slate hipped roofs. 2 storey. Stone plinth, band, moulded eaves cornice and Chamfered quoins. Glazing bar sash windows with gauged brick heads. Red brick wall joins service wing to stable court beyond: 2 rusticated stone gate piers, one still with ball finial. CL 10.4.1915. A T Bolton: The architecture of R and J Adam 1922. D Stroud: Capability Brown 1975. G Bead: Decorative Plasterwork 1975. R Adam and Croome Court Connoisseur October 1953.

Listing NGR: SO8849444596

External Links

• Croome Court at Wikipedia
• Croome Court official website
• Wikidata Q4242143

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