The Pastures

NORTH LUFFENHAM SK 90 SW GLEBE ROAD (North Side)

6/203 Nos. 10 and 10A (The Pastures)

GV II*

House, now 2 dwellings. 1901 and 1909. By C.F.A. Voysey for Miss G. Conant.

Roughcast rendered brick with buttresses, stone dressings and Collyweston

slate roof with buff ridge tiles. Squared stone ridge, end and side stacks

with moulded stone cornices and mostly with original chimney pots., L

plan house, 1½ and 2 storeys of leaded-light stone mullion windows with

1 and 1½ storey stableblock wing forming a 3rd side, the whole being

U plan. Entrance on inner left side. Gabled 2 storey porch-like projection

with door, leaded canopy hung on iron stanchion, bull's eye window to

right and 3-light over. On short sides further 2 and 1-light windows.

To left of projection a gable with 3-light, 2-light and 2-light over.

To right 2 2-lights both floors. On facing side 3 2-lights both floors,

and on right end a staircase and bell tower with 2 : 4 : 2-light bay

lighting staircase surmounted by clock face and gabled bellcote projection

supported on stone corbels. Bell within. On these 2 sides a 1st floor

tile ledge band. Garden front towards road an irregular composition with

2 3-lights, a 2-light mullion and transom window, and open rounded arch

leading to porch with glazed door and 2-light within. Over are 2 3-light

dormers and to right a gable with 1-light and 2 storey square bay, 4

4 : 4-lights, this the extension of 1909. Paddocks front of 3, 4, 3, 2, 2-light windows with 3 similar wooden framed dormers over, the centre one either side a stack. To right a gable with a 1-light both floors and a 2 storey bay, 1 : 3 : 1-lights. On left end of this front a 1 storey wing with 3 1-lights and a 2-light window, and extending from its left end a brick wall c2½m high with stone coped pier on end and round-arched doorway with tile lintel and original door and hinges. On right side and extending from house the stable block range with double and single doors, some part-glazed, a 2 and a 3-light window, ridge stack, and timbered gable to right with loft door. Original ornamental iron gutters throughout. The house interior is little altered with slate flagged hall, the original staircases, the principal with bronze statuette on newel, doors with original locks and keys, and windows with original fittings. Simpson, D., C.F.A. Voysey, London, 1979, p.89, 150 and pl.36. Pevsner.

Listing NGR: SK9309703402