The Pastures

The Pastures is a house, now divided into two dwellings, constructed in 1901 with an extension in 1909. It was designed by C.F.A. Voysey for Miss G. Conant. The house is built of roughcast rendered brick with stone dressings and a Collyweston slate roof, featuring buff ridge tiles, stone ridge and side stacks with moulded cornices, and mostly original chimney pots. The layout is L-shaped, with a stableblock wing forming a third side, creating a U-shaped composition. The main entrance is on the inner left side and is marked by a gabled, two-story porch-like projection with a doorway, a leaded canopy supported on an iron stanchion, a bull’s eye window to the right, and a three-light window above. Further windows on each side of the projection include one, two, and three-light openings. To the right of the projection are two two-light windows on each floor. The front elevation facing away from the lane has three two-light windows on each floor, and a staircase and bell tower with a four-by-four-by-two-light bay to illuminate the staircase, topped by a clock face and a gabled bellcote projection supported on stone corbels containing a bell. A tile ledge band runs across the top of the two sides with the tower. The garden front, facing the road, is an irregular composition featuring two three-light windows, a mullion-and-transom window, and a rounded open arch leading to a porch with a glazed door and a two-light window inside. Dormers are above, and to the right, a gable with a small, single-light window and a two-story square bay with a four-by-four-by-four-light window—this is the 1909 extension. The front of the house features a series of windows of varying sizes, with three, four, three, two, and two-lights, and dormers above. A gable with a single-light window on both floors is adjacent to a two-story bay with a one-by-three-by-one-light arrangement. A one-story wing with three single-light and one two-light windows extends from the left end of this front. A brick wall approximately two and a half meters high, with a stone-coped pier at the end and a round-arched doorway with a tile lintel, original door, and hinges, is situated at the very left end. The right side of the house connects to the stable block, which includes double and single doors (some part-glazed), two-light and three-light windows, a ridge stack, and a timbered gable with a loft door. Original ornamental iron gutters are present throughout. The interior of the house remains largely unaltered, containing a slate-flagged hall, original staircases (the principal one featuring a bronze statuette on the newel), doors with original locks and keys, and original window fittings.