Clonterbrook House

SWETTENHAM C.P. TRAP ROAD SJ 86 NW Swettenham Heath

5/39 Clonterbrook House

14.2.67

GV II*

House,1697 (on front door head) with later alterations. Brown brick in English garden wall bond, with stone slate roof. 2 storeys and attic.5 bays. Projecting brick plinth and toothed first floor stringcourse. Pair of 3-panel doors with egg and dart panel beads in heavy ogee moulded dowelled frame with ogee moulded external architrave. Flat narrow door hood, inscribed I.K.L. and the date, on ogee moulded support. Restored timber cross windows with C20 metal lights and rectangular leaded glazing. Royal Insurance Plate over first floor central window. Heavy rafter feet exposed at eaves. Sandstone gable copings with ball finials to eaves and apex. Stacks slightly set in from gables. C20 added single storey outshuts, with stone slate roofs, almost full width of gables. Projecting brick gable bands at eaves and above attic windows. Interior: Oak window with leaded glazing and ogee moulded door frame in original east gable-end. Two face-carved ovolo moulded inglenook beams and open straight flues. Ovolo-moulded first floor beams. C19 ceiling height oak panelling in Drawing Room. Stone slab floor. Timber framing exposed in staircase walls. Linenfold panelled frieze. Oak dogleg staircase with square newels, heavy moulded handrail and turned balusters. At first floor level there are timbers in the staircase walls, six-panel doors and ovolo moulded beams. In the attic there are wide boarded doors on strap hinges in the spaces between the truss tie beams and collars. Short flights of steps take you from attic floor level up over the truss tie beams and down the other side. The trusses are original, as are the purlins which have wind braces.

Listing NGR: SJ8214767235