Rowland Hall

WRESSLE ROWLANDHALL LANE SE 73 SW (east side) 5/151 Rowland Hall 16.12.66

• II House. Late C18. Brick in Flemish bond with stone dressings and concrete tile and slate roofs. Central-hallway entry with flanking service wings. 2 storeys, 3 bays with advanced central gabled bay, and single-storey 2-bay service wings. Steps to 6-panel door beneath radial glazed fanlight in doorcase with attached Doric columns, dooserets and open pediment. To left: 16-pane sashes. To right: 4-pane sashes. First-floor band to main house. Hipped roofs and end stacks to service wings. First floor: 16-pane sashes to centre and left; 4-pane sash to right. Keyed wedge lintels to all windows. Oval oculus to gable. Hipped roof, end stacks. INTERIOR: open-string staircase with turned balusters, and modillion cornice to hall. Lavish decoration to sitting room. Fireplace has paired attached columns with palm leaf capitals and foliage motif in interstices, carrying frieze with central plaque depicting Roman figures in relief flanked by panels with relief foxes heads and hunting horns above festoons, and outer panels with medallions containing heads, possibly representing wood sprites; oak leaf cornice. Dado rail and plain panelling. Fireplace flanked by round-arched alcoves with reeded pilasters, foliage and dentilled friezes and guilloches to soffit of arches. Acanthus leaves, dentils and paterae to ceiling cornice. Elaborate ceiling rose with festoons, paterae and radial foliage motifs.

Listing NGR: SE7246630819