Blue Hall

RIMSWELL CHURCH ROAD TA 32 NW (west side) 4/70 Blue Hall - II

House. Early C19. Grey brick in Flemish bond, with red brick to left return. Westmorland slate roof. Double-depth plan with 2-room, central entrance-hall south front. 2 storeys, 3 bays; symmetrical. Step to Doric doorcase with attached columns carrying moulded cornice, panelled door and radial fanlight in round-headed reveal. 16-pane sashes in recessed architraves with sills and channelled and keyed stucco cambered arches. Moulded wooden eaves board. Hipped roof. Corniced side wall stacks. Right return, facing road, has narrow plate-glass sash to ground floor left, inserted window to right, 16-pane segmental-headed first-floor sashes in similar surrounds to front. Central stair window to rear has 4-pane sash in flush wooden architrave beneath dummy round-arched head with painted radial glazing bars. Interior. Entrance hall has reeded architrave to front door, opening to stairhall with reeded half-columns supporting elliptical arch with panelled soffit, moulded dado rail; open well staircase with ramped and wreathed handrail, column balusters and moulded wall rail; moulded cornice with ribbed frieze and ceiling roundel. Ground floor left has moulded plaster cornice and ribbed frieze with lion's head ornament, good composition chimney-piece with fluted columns with foliate necking, carrying dosserets with draped urns, frieze with urn and festoons, moulded cornice and shelf. Composition chimney-piece to first floor left with fluted columns, figures and festoons to frieze; chimney-piece to first floor right with fluted pilasters and dentilled cornice.

Listing NGR: TA3178927790