Twycross House School

SK 30 SW TWYCROSS MAIN ROAD (south- west side) 4/114 Twycross House School 7.11.66 (No 1)

GV II

House, now school. Dated 1703. Extended in the C19. Red and blue brick chequer with plain tiled roofs and central brick ridge stack. Lobby-entry plan with service wing to right. 2 storeys on stone plinth, with plat band and wooden modillion eaves cornice. Regular 5-window front with single-bay pedimented central projection, made slightly irregular by a deep gabled 2-bay projection to the right with end gable stack. Early C18 wooden cross-windows with lead lattice glazing, now painted, all in segment-headed surrounds. 2 small garret windows in end of right hand wing. Date plaque inscribed W H S 1703 in pediment over entrance. Wide segmental pedimented entrance with shallow fanlight and 6-panelled door, the panels being raised and fielded. Interior: Remains of an early C18 splat baluster two-flight return stair; square newels, corniced upstanding rail and closed string. Hall with chamfered and stopped spine-beam, fireplace with heavy reused bressumer. Panelled piers to arches and corniced window-sills. Later C18 wooden fire surround in the drawing room with heavy volute side supports. Sitting room with marble bolection moulded fire surround set in dado panelling continued as mantel-shelf with egg and dart decoration over fire surround. Study with 3 arched cupboards with doubled panelled doors. Various bolection-moulded door surrounds with raised and fielded panelled doors throughout the building.

Listing NGR: SK3365104907