Chiverton House, Attached Boundary Walls Gatepiers And Railings

PARISH OF DRONFIELD CHESTERFIELD ROAD SK 37 NE (North Side) 6/19 Chiverton House, 9.1.67 attached boundary walls gatepiers and railings (No 41) II* GV House. C17, 1712 and C19 alterations. Coursed squared coal measures sandstone with ashlar dressings, coped gables with moulded kneelers, ashlar ridge stacks, reduced in height and a stone slated roof. Symmetrical plan with advanced towers to either end, and a broad central gable. Two storeys and attics, six bays, the two centre bays below the middle gable, and with small gabled attic dormers giving access to the tops of the towers. Central doorway with rusticated ashlar surround and lintel and with advanced keyblock integral with perimeter band which returns in shouldered form onto the jambs. C20 glazed door with glazing bars. Flanking the doorway are 2-light chamfer mullioned windows with transoms, the mullions slightly recessed, all beneath a continuous string which steps down over the door head. Flanking the central bays are paired mullioned and transomed windows; this pattern is repeated at first floor level, where there is also a continuous stringcourse. Within the gables are two 2-light chamfer mullioned windows, beneath a continuous dripmould. The gable apex has a single light C17 opening. The west gable has two 2-light chamfer mullioned windows to the attic, and has been previously roughcast. The rear elevation is partially enclosed by a full height offshut with a steeply pitched roof. Interior. At the west end the C17 hearth survives with a segmental arch to the head of a wide hearth. Within the central bays a full height stair with turned balusters in pine survives. The remaining ground floor rooms were remodelled in the C19. The front of the house is enclosed by stepped stone walls with flat copings to east and west, and is retained by a stone wall at the front with a slightly curved coping. At either end of the terrace wall, and flanking the central stepped approach are ashlar gatepiers, square on plan, each with a moulded cornice surmounted by acorn finials and plain ball finials to the end piers. The walls support ornamental cast iron railings and double gates at the entrance. To the east of the most easterly pier is a tall stone wall, pierced at the centre by a doorway with an elliptical arched head, and a plain planked door. The wall curves upwards at the eastern end to link with the eaves of the adjacent outbuilding. History. An unlistable garden wall to the rear of the house appears to be that which is depicted on a plan of the house standing on the site in 1692. The 1712 date is accompanied by the initials JB, which refer to John Brown of Heston, Middlesex, who purchased the house in 1711.

Listing NGR: SK3551278467