Magdalen House And Flanking Screen Walls

PRESTON MAGDALEN LANE TA 22 NW (north side, off)

4/15 Magdalen House and flanking screen walls

GV II Farmhouse and flanking screen walls. 1815 for Thomas Wilson, with minor later C19 alterations. Red-brown, whitewashed to north front. Pantile roof. Plan: double- depth, with 2-room central entrance-hall principal south front, secondary north front, and screen walls adjoining to east and west, incorporating late C19 outshut on west side of house. South front: 2 storeys with attic, 3 bays, with entrance slightly to left of centre. Doorcase with panelled pilasters and brackets carrying dosserets and hood, inner panelled architrave with carved rosettes to angles. Half-glazed door (4 panes above 2 fielded panels) beneath moulded cornice and radial fanlight in round-headed panelled reveal. Unequal 20-pane ground-floor sashes in reveals with sills and painted rubbed-brick cambered arches. 12-pane first-floor sashes in flush wooden architraves with similar sills and arches. All sashes with narrow glazing bars. Stepped eaves. Double-span roof. Tumbled-in brick to raised gable. End stacks. Right return: single 12-pane sashes in flush wooden architraves to ground and first floors, 4-pane attic sliding sash. Left return has 6-pane attic casement, three 6-pane ground-floor windows in adjoining screen wall. North front: 3 bays; symmetrical. Doorcase with panelled pilasters carrying tall dosserets and open modillioned pediment. 6-fielded-panel door and blind radial fanlight in round-headed reveal. C20 12-pane sashes in flush wooden architraves with sills and stucco cambered arches. Central round-headed first-floor sash with glazing bars. Stepped eaves. Outshut to right has similar single 12-pane sash to each floor. Plain stone-coped screen walls extending approximately 20 metres to each side, approximately 2 metres tall, that to west with late C19 ramped parapet on south side of outshut. Interior. Entrance hall has corniced dado rail, 6-fielded-panel doors in architraves and beaded-panel reveals, round-arched opening to rear stairhall with panelled pilasters and archivolt with fluted key. Open well staircase with ramped corniced handrail, slender column balusters, plain newels and scrolled cheekpieces; ramped corniced dado rail. Ground-floor front rooms have moulded cornices, C19 chimney-pieces flanked by round-headed alcoves, panelled window shutters. First-floor hall has elliptical arch with keyed archivolt, dado rail, 6-fielded-panel doors in architraves. Front bedrooms have original fireplaces with cast-iron duck's- nest grates and chimney-pieces with panelled pilasters, dosserets, plain friezes and moulded cornices, that to front left flanked by full-height cupboards with fielded-panel doors; moulded cornices to front and rear right bedrooms.

Listing NGR: TA2006029339