Estate Office And Clerk'S House

SLEDMERE MAIN hSTREET SE 9264-9364 (north side)

17/59 Estate Office and Clerk's House

GV II

Estate office and clerk's house. c1890. By John Birch for Sir Tatton Sykes, 5th Baronet. Reddish-orange brick in English garden wall bond with ashlar dressings and plain tile roof. Built as 2 offset blocks. Estate office: single storey, 2 bays, the left of which breaks forward and is gabled; set back to left is 2-storey, 2-bay left return of clerk's house; clerk's house, main facade: 2 storeys, 3 bays of which left bay breaks forward and is gabled,with ranges to left. Estate office: plinth with chamfered ashlar copings. Entrance set back to right side a board door in 4-centred, moulded ashlar surround under wooden gabled porch. At left side a canted bay window, the centre of 3 lights,the side of single lights with ovolo-moulded mullions and transoms in double-chamfered ashlar surround. Above, an ashlar plaque depicting triton. To second bay a 3-light window with ovolo-moulded mullions and transoms in double-chamfered surround and with ashlar quoins. Small gable above. Wooden modillion eaves. Ridge stack. Set back to left is left return of clerk's house: left bay breaks forward and is gabled. Plinth. To left a canted bay window, the centre of 2 lights, the sides are single lights with ovolo-moulded mullions and in double-chamfered surround with quoined jambs. Then a 3-light ovolo-moulded window in double-chamfered surrounds with quoined jambs. To first floor are two 2-light windows with similar mouldings and surrounds. To gable an ornamental slit in quoined ashlar surround. Small gable above second bay. Wooden modillion eaves. Clerk's house, main facade: plinth with chamfered ashlar copings. Central entrance a board door within 4-centred moulded ashlar surround with quoined jambs, under half-brick, half-timber gabled porch. To left a 3-light ovolo-moulded mullion-and-transom window within double-chamfered ashlar surround and with quoined jambs. To right a similar 2-light window. To first floor a 3- and a 2-light window with similar mouldings and surrounds. To gable an ornamental slit in quoined ashlar surround. Small gable above right bay. Wooden modillion eaves and rear stacks. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, York and The East Riding, 1978, p 346.

Listing NGR: SE9328964889