Christleton House

SJ 46 NW CHRISTLETON C.P. PEPPER STREET (North Side)

3/23 Christleton House

4/6/1952

GV II

House: dated 1760 on rainhead but probably the fabric and all details early-mid C19. Flemish bond orange brick with yellow headers, stone dressings. Hipped Welsh slate roof and 2 brick chimneys. Hipped Welsh slate roof and 2 brick chimneys. Square in plan. 2-storey symmetrical 3-bay east front. Stone plinth, moulded stone cornice and a stone blocking course. End bays have 20-pane sashes, the uppermost panes with cusped pointed tracery. These have flat-wedged stone heads with scalloped soffits. Central bay has an added detached wooden porch on fluted piers, with a triglyph frieze and a coffered ceiling. Doorcase with fluted columns and twisted capitals. Rectangular fanlight with intersecting tracery. Similar treatment to windows on south and north fronts where 2 are false. Interior: Double-pile plan. 6 recessed-panelled softwood doors in panelled reveals throughout and with moulded architraves with lions heads in the corners. Archway over passage has moulded pilasters and Greek key design in the archivolt, continued in the ceiling cornice. Gothic style staircase with cusped headed iron panel balusters and mahogany handrail. Room to left has cornice and border of vines, and a central roundel with a border of roses. Fireplace has clumsy shouldered architrave. Room to right has a mantel on carved consoles. Similar fittings upstairs.

Listing NGR: SJ4401165688