Sedgefield House

NZ 3528 SEDGEFIELD WEST END (South side)

13/59 No. 20 (Sedgefield House) II

House. Early C19 (possibly with older masonry in cellar); rear wing added mid C19. Roughcast; stone front and brick rear wing; Welsh slate roofs with roughcast stone chimneys. L-plan: front block with wing attached to rear of left return. 2-storey, 3-bay front has low plinth, raised-and-chamfered quoins and central 4-panel door and overlight in doorcase with hood on consoles. Doorway flanked by segmental bow windows with sashes, panelled aprons, frieze and cornice on consoles. Three 16-pane sashes above with architraves and projecting sills. Eaves frieze, cornice and low parapet. Roof has coped gables and corniced end chimneys. Rear has 2-storey canted bay window to left with elongated 8- and 12-pane sashes and patterned blind boxes; first-floor stair window to right has radial head and architrave. 3-storey, 4-bay rear wing has 5 openings to ground floor and 9- and 12-pane sashes in architraves; right bay breaks forward and has raised-and-chamfered quoins and first-floor canted oriel. Low-pitched roof, hipped to rear, has 2 corniced ridge chimneys.

Interior: tunnel-vaulted, brick-lined cellar has exposed masonry with large alternate quoins. Late C19, 2-flight, dogleg staircase with landing rail has cast-iron balusters supporting a wreathed, grip handrail. Several good mid C19 cast-iron fireplaces and grates.

Cottage, attached to right of main block, rebuilt in mid C20, is not of special interest.

NZ 3528 SEDGEFIELD SPRING LANE (West Side)

13/59 No.20, West End (Sedgefield House)

II

See entry under WEST END (South side).

Listing NGR: NZ3542628665