Sefton Court Mansions

Sefton Court Mansions is a house dating from the 1860s, constructed with stucco and featuring a hipped slate roof. The building is three storeys high with a basement, and comprises four bays by three. Channelled rustication is visible on the basement, along with a lintel band on the ground floor and a sill course on the first floor. A top frieze and bracketed cornice also feature. The first bay is of one storey and has a canted bay window. Projecting tripartite windows with segmental heads and panelled friezes flank a bowed window on the ground floor. Windows to the first floor have flat pilasters, panelled friezes, cornices, and tripartite sashes. Balustraded balconies are present. Round-headed windows with gables, foliage panels, and finials breaking through the cornice are located on the second floor. The central window of this floor has smaller flanking windows and a balcony on brackets with a pierced front. The entrance front exhibits varied fenestration, including a porch with Doric columns and a pedimented window on the first floor.

Around 1901, the interior was refurbished for the shipping magnate Dashper E. Glynn by Edmund Rathbone. The Bromsgrove Guild was commissioned to redecorate the drawing and smoking rooms, including four paintings by Henry Payne, woodcarving, and repousse metalwork for the drawing room fireplace. It is believed that significant elements of the Bromsgrove Guild’s work remain from this period.