Eastfield House

SNAITH AND COWICK GOOLE ROAD SE 62 SW (north side) Snaith 2/55 Eastfield House GV II House. c1840 for Mrs Shearburn. Grey brick in Flemish bond with sandstone ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. Double-depth plan with 2-room central entrance-hall south front and wing to rear right. 2 storeys, 3 bays; symmetrical. Plinth. Tuscan porch with attached columns carrying entablature with hood over panelled door and plain overlight in reveal, flanked by 12-pane sashes with margin lights in wooden architraves and reveals with sills and channelled and keyed wedge lintels. First-floor sill band. Similar, smaller first-floor sashes. Moulded wooden eaves board, bracketed eaves. Double-span hipped roof. End stacks with ashlar coping and square pots. Interior: hall has foliate relief to dado, moulded cornice with gapevine frieze, moulded arch on head-corbels; similar arch to upper hall; open well staircase with ramped handrail and drop-on-vase balusters; moulded cornices and warble chimney-pieces to wain rooms; pair of keyed elliptical arched alcoves to rear right. One of the series of mid-C19 suburban villas built at Snaith for the Shearburn family.

Listing NGR: SE6479721949