Arcot Hall Golf Club Attached Walls And Outbuilding

Arcot Hall Golf Club’s attached walls and outbuilding is a country house, now a golf club, dating to the late 18th century, with additions in the 19th century. It was originally built for George Shum-Storey; the south block is dated 1805 and bears the initials R S (likely Robert Storey) on a rainwater head. Service wings were added in the mid-19th century. The original house has a front of whitewashed, tooled ashlar and a rear of brick; the south block is brick, rendered and whitewashed. The roofs are generally Lakeland slate, with a lead half-dome over a bow window. The original house and south block form an L shape, with service wings to the north.

The entrance front (south) is the 1805 block, a symmetrical design of three storeys and three bays. It features a central Roman Doric porch with pilasters and a triglyph frieze, supporting a renewed half-glazed door under a keyed arch flanked by four-pane fixed windows set under keyed round arches. The lower floors have tripartite sash windows, with one 20th-century replacement. The second floor has four-pane sashes, with sill bands. The roof is hipped with corniced stacks, the one on the left featuring a tripartite shaft and the one on the right being rendered.

The east front is divided into three sections. The central three-storey, three-bay section has a central three-window bow. It has a plinth, sill bands, and a moulded eaves cornice that steps up over the bow. A contemporary two-storey, three-bay section to the left, linked to the centre by a narrow recessed bay with a renewed door, continues the bands and moulded eaves cornice from the centre. Sash windows, mostly with glazing bars (some renewed), are present, with the bow windows curved on plan. Set back on the far left is a screen wall, concealing a single-storey outbuilding with a shaped coped gable. The right part is the west end of the 1805 block, featuring a dated rainwater head and an arched first-floor window with coloured margined glazing, reputedly lighting a domestic chapel.

At the rear, a single-storey domestic wing has two parallel gabled roofs, each with a tall, banded ridge stack. A contemporary yard has a tall, flat-coped wall on the north side.

The lounge retains a coved anthemion cornice; the dining room has a modillion cornice and an ornamental ceiling rose. Rooms on the first floor feature good cornices and fielded-panel doors, formerly centre-hinged. The lounge fireplace is flanked by fluted shafts with leafy capitals, supporting a lintel with medallions.

George Shum, who had travelled in India and was present at the siege of Arcot, married the daughter of Robert Storey and took the name Shum-Storey.

An altered outbuilding range to the north of the walled yard is not considered to be of special interest.