Fyndoune And Fyndoune Mews

Early 19th century house, incorporating a 17th century building, and now divided into two separate residences, with later 19th and early 20th century alterations. The exterior is rough render with a partial boulder plinth and ashlar dressings, topped by a Welsh slate roof with a stone ridge and stone gable copings. The house is two stories and five bays wide. The two bays on the left are from the early 19th century, featuring a half-glazed door within a later half-glazed porch with a low gable. A bow window, dating from the early 19th century, is positioned to the left, with 20th-century glazing, including an armorial panel and monograms. The original 17th-century section is to the right with a boulder plinth, interrupted by a square projecting bay at the right end featuring a bay window on the ground floor and a three-light first-floor window. The third and fourth bays on the ground floor have three-light windows with renewed label moulds. Later windows above are of three and one lights, under a single, wide label mould. All windows have early 20th-century wood mullions and transoms. A ridge chimney is located to the left of the older part, with a damaged finial at the right end of the ridge. A low-relief cast-iron plaque depicting figures, located over the door, has an added frame with the legend “NEW FOREST C17 FINDON C19”. The right return side features a full-height bowed projection, blank on the ground floor, with some curved glass in three first-floor curved sash windows. Rear 19th and 20th-century additions include a half-timbered gabled porch, with some late 20th-century glazing.

The interior of the oldest room, located within the third and fourth bays, reveals a boxed-in wide beam and joists with run-out chamfered stops. There is decorative panelling and a chimney piece dating from 1905, with carved dates 1613 and 1905, and several re-used carved brackets depicting herons. A fifth-bay room contains a re-used early 18th-century chimney-piece, originally acquired in Newcastle, bearing the motto "Think and Thank" and the initials "A" and "O." The roof in these three bays is constructed with massive tie-beam trusses, featuring two levels of butt purlins.

The rear service wing is now known as Fyndoune Mews and incorporates 20th-century additions in the form of a porch and windows. A rear garage wing, at right angles to the service wing, is not considered to be of architectural interest.