Description

TL 66 NW NEWMARKET COTTON END ROAD, (including EXNING) EXNING

1/84 Glanelly Rest 25.1.63 (Exning House) including two attached gate- ways and section of garden wall to north. (Formerly listed as The Glanelly Rest (formerly Exning House) under General)

II*

Home for the elderly. Formerly country house; 1734, by Andrews Jelfe, altered and extended 1896 by Philip Webb. The original building to right, 7 bays with central 3 bays set slightly forward under a pediment; 3 storeys on basements. Red brick, reddened with fine white pointing. Limestone dressings; unmoulded strings at 1st and 2nd floors, rusticated quoins and modillion eaves cornice. Hipped slated roof and central chimneys of red brick. Windows with moulded limestone frames and small-pane sashes; altered C19. Prominent open former entrance porch of limestone: Corinthian columns supporting an enriched entablature with segmental arched pediment (the glazed screen inserted c.1896). A fine elliptical C18 staircase rising through 3 floors, with slender barley sugar pattern balusters, scrolled tread-ends and open string. At the rear a similar entrance doorway in limestone, with early C19 half-glazed panelled door; limestone steps and lion-head ornamented wrought-iron railings. The large extension of 1896 to left on 2 storeys with attics and basements, showing Rennaissance influence with limestone quoins and parapets where it abuts the C18 building, but graduating to the Arts and Crafts style towards the kitchen end. Red brick slated and hipped plaintiled roofs. A variety of casements and sash windows. 2 storey entrance porch with pair of half-glazed oak panelled doors. The dining room has a fireplace, panelling, etc. typical of Webb's work. Attached to the rear, two fine mid C18 gateways, both having a pair of red brick gatepiers with limestone cappings, one pair surmounted by limestone urns; wrought iron gates with side-panels and crown. At the north end a high mid C18 garden wall of red brick extends for 40 metres with a short return southwards. Included as grade II* because a rare, almost complete example of a country house by Philip Webb.

Listing NGR: TL6207066079

External Links

• Wikidata Q17534964

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