Drayton House

664-1/1/11 LULWORTH ROAD 01-NOV-89 BIRKDALE 2 Drayton House

(Formerly listed as: LULWORTH ROAD BIRKDALE 2 DRAYTON HOUSE) (Formerly listed as: LULWORTH ROAD BIRKDALE 2A DRAYTON HOUSE)

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Detached villa. c1850. Brick in Flemish bond, with stone dressings; Welsh slate roofs, both hipped and gable ended. PLAN: axial entrance hall plan with principal rooms off, lateral open-well stairs (the stair hall with its own side entrance) and services to rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. North entrance front: slightly off-centre entrance with gabled wing to right. Deeply overhanging eaves with moulded gutter and moulded bargeboarding supported by large shaped brackets (which continue round all except rear elevation). Wing with 2-storeyed canted stone bay with horned sashes above and French windows below. Stone porch with entablature and pilasters and a prominent cast-iron and glazed portico (barrel-vaulted glazed roof, decorative brackets on Gothic columns, and fancy ironwork in tympanum) projected over flight of steps. Sashed window in stone architrave above. To left, an extruded chimney stack flanked at ground floor by round-headed single-light small-paned windows with radiating glazing bars and stone surrounds. Along this part of the front and returning along the left (east) front, a cast-iron verandah of 4 and 6 unequal bays respectively with decorative ironwork like that of the portico. Left (east) elevation has 2 horned sashed windows at ground floor with shouldered architraves, and at first floor 2 large round-headed windows with keyed stone surrounds and run-out sill and impost bands, under prominent projected gables with finials. Beyond this portion is a porch which has a doorway with panelled double doors and glazed overlight and a stone surround and pediment, and paired round-headed windows in the sides; and to the left of this a gabled wing which has a large segmental-headed 2-light window at ground floor and at first floor a window of 3 round-headed lights, all these windows in keyed stone surrounds; and oversailing eaves with a finial. Right-hand (west) elevation with gabled wing to right (with fenestration like that of the east elevation, plus a round-headed attic window with small cast-iron balcony on stone brackets); left of this, one window bay under gable (round-headed window to first floor with stone surround, its apron connecting with ground-floor window with moulded architrave), and a 2-bay expanse of plain panelled brickwork with 2 small triangular projecting latticed windows at first floor. Rear more simply treated, with later oriel. INTERIOR: largely intact; hall with panelling which incorporates door surrounds, decorative master ceilings and tiled floor; staircase with cast-iron balusters and wreathed handrail, fragments of coloured glass to stair window; some elaborate fire surrounds.

Listing NGR: SD3289816635