Springfield

This is a mid-19th century ashlar-built house, Springfield, located on Thornhill Road in Edgerton. It has a hipped slate roof and overhanging eaves, punctuated by two moulded horizontal strings. The main facade has three window ranges, with the south side projecting and featuring a two-storey canted bay window on the ground floor. This bay has a casement window with moulded surrounds and both depressed-arched and round-arched heads, decorative moulded panels above, and machicolations below the ground floor cornice. The first floor of the south projection features sashes in moulded surrounds with round-arched heads, the central window being doubled and topped with a sculpted finial; moulded panels sit above, followed by a moulded eaves cornice with ornamental cresting. The remaining first-floor windows mirror this design. The ground-floor window is a round-arched casement with moulded voussoirs and a hoodmould, a gadrooned keystone ornamented with a foliage swag, and colonnettes with foliage capitals in the jambs. A porch is supported by two pairs of banded columns with elaborate foliate capitals, framing a shouldered arch with relief sculpture in the spandrels. Further machicolations are topped by a moulded cornice, parapet, moulded coping, and urn finials. A six-step approach leads to the front, flanked by double-curved retaining walls and cylindrical piers with moulded coping. The double doors have four moulded panels, a semi-circular fanlight with moulded voussoirs, and a six-step approach. The garden front features three window ranges on the first floor and casements on the ground floor, with the centre range slightly recessed. Window detailing is consistent with the front facade. Flanking first-floor windows have three lights, all topped by hoodmoulds; the centre window is similar to the central window on the front facade. The ground floor contains two canted bays – one mirroring the ground floor canted bay on the entrance front and the other being oblong with a Venetian window and hoodmould, figurative label stops, and a gadrooned keystone ornamented with foliage swag. Elaborate carved label stops adorn the hoodmoulds of the side lights flanking this window. The central ground floor windows have three lights, round-arched with moulded surrounds. The chimney stacks are distinguished by moulded modillioned cornices and acroteria at the corners. The interior boasts lavish plasterwork, with a particularly elaborate staircase exhibiting richly turned wooden balusters.