Morton House

SK 89 SW MORTON FRONT STREET

8/29 Morton House 16.12.64 G.V. II

Small country house. Early C18 with extensive early C19 additions and alterations. Rendered brick with ashlar dressings, hipped slate roofs, partly lead dressed, 4 wall stacks. U-plan with 3 bay sides. 2 storey 7 bay front with plinth, first floor band and dentillated cornice, arranged 1:1:3:1:1, the end bays recessed, the central ones slightly advanced, balustrade over central 5 bays. Central panelled door with large square central panel having traceried overlight. Distyle in antis portico, 2 steps, deep plain entablature. Flanked by 2 deep glazing bar sashes with blind boxes with beyond deep triple sashes divided by paired free standing Ionic columns in antis, the flat roofs of the single storeyed pavilions have antifixae at the outer angles. First floor of main block has 5 glazing bar sashes with beyond to either side single glazing bar sashes, beyond are pilasters to the angles. Interior has unusual Egyptian style battered architraves to the doors, dentillated cornices and in the hall a fine semi-circular arch with roses on the archivolt as well as a cantilevered staircase with limestone treads and paired cast iron balusters decorated with paterae and leaf scrolls. The original early C18 house occupied the central 5 bays of the present front, and at the rear the smaller early C18 brickwork can be distinguished from the larger bricks of the later wings.

Listing NGR: SK8115191491