Gedling House

Gedling House is a house, now a County Educational Resources Centre, dating from approximately 1820 and the mid-19th century. It is constructed of brick, with stucco rendering, and has hipped slate roofs. The house features an ashlar plinth, a band at first floor level, balustrades, parapets, and deep, modillioned eaves.

The south front has a central, full-height parapeted bow with curved steps leading to a tall sash window. This is flanked by three further sashes. To the left is a two-storey addition with two casement windows. To the right is a round-headed sash window with Gothic glazing bars. Above these are seven sashes, and above those again, seven smaller sashes. The addition to the west includes a square bay window and a canted bay window with two casements, a French window flanked by single sashes, and a single sash above. A coped brick wall with a door leads to a courtyard.

The rear elevation has a stuccoed coach house with a pyramidal roof, a louvred roof vent, a side wall stack, and a 20th-century garage door. To its right is a round-headed doorway, and to the right again a two-storey service wing with a louvred door and two sashes, and three smaller sashes above. A connecting link to the main house has two sashes on each floor.

The main entrance features a central, pedimented doorcase with Doric columns and a fanlight, flanked by three sashes, with six sashes above and six smaller sashes above again.

The panelled entrance hall contains a geometrical cantilevered wooden staircase with a scrolled and ramped handrail and stick balusters. A late 19th-century ballroom has plaster wall panels and a Baroque Revival-style fireplace. Other principal rooms have moulded wall panels and cornices. The house preserves three early 19th-century Classical-style fireplaces with hob grates.