Bushloe House (District Council Offices)

WIGSTON STATION ROAD (north side) SP69 NW 4/24 Bushloe House (District Council Offices) II Offices. Formerly dwelling.C.1850 greatly increased in size C.1880.Yellow brick with Welsh slate roof. Principal block of 2½ storeys with squared bay window to ground floor, tripartite sash with moulded stones jambs above 3 light ½ dormer above. Former doorway recessed in projecting left hand bay. Lower right hand range, cement rendered with painted tuck pointing to match cross wing,of 2 storeys and 2 bays with sash windows. Deep cornice below overhanging eaves. Broken rooflines expressing other blocks to rear. Principal interest of the building lies in the staircase hall: 3 flight open well stair with enclosed string and octagonal balusters. Heavy octagonal newels with rummified acorn finials (and pendants) ramped upstanding rail with roll moulding. Coved planked lantern above with pierced roundel motifs above and below, the lantern itself carried on huge carved brackets and battered with diagonally planked and ribbed ceiling. Anthemion painted glass, extending the theme of theme of the painted wall decoration. This is attributed to Christopher Dresser, with frieze and dado on each level, first floor dado becoming a mid-wall panel in the stairwell. Abstract sunflower and roundel work with geometric patterning and chevrons to ground floor. Gothic arch doorways with short corbels and inner shafts, and stilted hoodmoulds. Panelled ceiling of upper landing of gallery also painted.

Listing NGR: SP6008398772