Glen House

SE 7803-7903 20/67

EPWORTH HIGH STREET (north side)

No 24 (Glen House)

GV II

House. 1779 with minor alterations of 1930s. Brown brick in Flemish bond, rendered below ground-floor sill level. Pantile roof. L-shaped on plan: 2-room, central entrance-hall front with single-room wing to rear left. 2 storeys, 3 bays; symmetrical. Central bay breaks forward. Entrance has stone step to pedimented doorcase with slim ribbed pilasters carrying dosserets with moulded cornice and moulded pediment; deep overlight with geometric glazing over recessed 6-panel door (4 fielded panels over flush panels). Three-quarters height flat-roofed canted bay windows to either side have C20 plate-glass sashes to each floor in original wood surrounds with sills, architraves and moulded cornices. Narrow central first-floor sash with C20 plate-glass sash in original opening with flush wooden architrave and sill beneath stucco flat arch. Plain wooden eaves board, bracketed corniced wooden gutter. Stone-coped gables with shaped kneelers. Corniced end stacks. Rainwater head to left gable bears inscription:

V J S 1779

Interior. Hall has fine open-well cantilevered staircase with ramped and wreathed corniced handrail, slender drop-on-vase balusters with square knops, clustered foot newel and profiled cheek-pieces; moulded cornice and frieze to upper hall ceiling with plasterwork fan motif; moulded cornice and ribbed frieze to lower hall ceiling. Ground-floor front rooms have moulded cornices, ribbed friezes and boxed-in spine beams to ceilings, basket-arched alcoves flanking chimneys. Moulded skirting, fielded-panel window reveals and 6-fielded-panel doors (some with H and L hinges) in ovolo-moulded architraves.

Listing NGR: SE7827303844