Lamb Close House Adjoining Gardeners Cottage And Conservatory

Lamb Close House is an early 18th-century house that was remodelled and extended in the mid- and late 19th century. It is constructed of coursed and squared rubble and brick, with hipped and gabled plain tile roofs, and ashlar dressings. The building has first-floor bands and 11 ridge stacks, 4 side wall stacks (two of which are external), and an external corner stack. The house is two storeys high and 8 bays wide, with a square plan. Most of the glazing bar sash windows have keystoned heads. The irregular front facade is dominated by an off-centre, square, balustraded porch with Corinthian piers and a round-headed casement. To the left of the porch are two sashes, and to the right a setback section with a sash and a French window flanked by single casements. A square, two-storey hipped bay window is on the left, with a French window and single flanking casements; to its right is a canted, two-storey hipped bay window with mullioned casements flanked by single sashes. Further to the right is a single sash. Above, the first floor features three sashes to the left, a triple sash, then two sashes, and finally a mullioned casement with flanking sashes, and a single sash. The south side of the house has four sashes and a canted, balustraded bay window with a central French window, and two casements to the right. Above, there are five sashes. A two-storey gardener's cottage is situated to the left, featuring a central door with a hood, flanked by single sashes, and three sashes above, with the central one smaller. To the left of the cottage is an iron-framed conservatory dating from the late 19th century. The south wing has a clerestory, and the east wing has a lean-to roof with a finial. A mid-19th-century service wing to the west, spanning two storeys and 10 bays, has regular fenestration with 19th and 20th-century casements, mostly with segmental heads. A late 19th-century addition, two storeys and four bays in an L-plan, features a canted oriel turret on the north-west corner with regular sash windows. The north side has a large, off-centre canted hipped oriel and regular fenestration.