Epperstone Manor And Attached And Adjacent Walls

Epperstone Manor is a substantial house, now used as a Nottinghamshire Constabulary Police Training School. The building comprises work dating from the mid-18th century, with significant alterations and extensions undertaken in 1866, 1876, and 1893.

The main garden front, facing south, is of 2 storeys and 9 bays, rendered with ashlar dressings beneath a plain tile roof. The roofline features 7 ashlar stacks, ashlar coped gables with kneelers and single ridge ashlar orb finials, and a moulded ashlar eaves band broken by the gables. The base is distinguished by a chamfered ashlar plinth with first floor and first floor sill bands. Dated rainwater heads document the different phases: the right 5 bays date from 1876, the single left bay from 1893, and the remaining 3 bays from 1866.

The central bay and outer bays project and are gabled. The central bay is canted at ground floor level and contains a single glazing bar quadripartite cross casement flanked by single similar single light casements. To its right stands a single similar casement, a 4-centred arched doorway with glazed and panelled door and overlight, and further right another single casement. The far right projecting bay is likewise canted. To the left off centre is a single tripartite cross casement, a similar doorway with door, and further left another single tripartite casement. The far left contains a single storey projecting ashlar bay with parapet decorated with open arches, housing a single 5-light cross casement.

The first floor features a single central quadripartite cross casement with ashlar dripmould, flanked by 2 gabled half dormers each containing a single tripartite cross casement with ashlar dripmould. On the far right is a single quadripartite cross casement with ashlar dripmould, and on the far left a single 5-light cross casement with flush ashlar quoin surround and dripmould.

Extending in front of the house for approximately 45 metres is an area paved with ashlar and an ashlar balustraded wall, broken twice by single flights of steps.

To the rear left is a 2-storey, 2-bay wing. In front of it extends a rendered wall with ashlar coping and a 4-centred arched doorway with 19th-century plank door. Further left stands a red brick tower with hipped plain tile roof and ashlar eaves band, 3 storeys high and single bay. This tower has first and second floor ashlar bands, with ground floor featuring 2 casements set at different levels and the top floor a single 2-light casement with ashlar dripmould, all with ashlar sills and lintels.

The entrance front comprises 3 gabled bays; the right 2 are 18th century and set back on a lower plinth. An ashlar porch on a moulded plinth contains a 4-centred arched moulded doorway with double 19th-century door, decorative spandrels and Tudor-style hoodmould. A parapet is decorated with lozenge. Within is an inner similarly arched doorway with panelled and part-glazed door. To its right is a single glazing bar cross casement and to the left a single tripartite glazing bar cross casement. The single bay to the left has a single external stack flanked on both floors by single light casements, those above being smaller. Above right are 2 glazing bar cross casements. All casements throughout the building have lead glazing bars.

Attached to the rear of the house and extending approximately 47 metres is a stepped ashlar wall with shaped coping. The wall rises higher where it meets a single storey projection from the house, containing a single 4-centred arched domestic gateway with plank door. The wall terminates at the right in a large gateway with plank double gate.

The interior contains a panelled entrance hall with Ionic pilasters. Some of the panelling dates from the 17th century and includes an ashlar fireplace with decoratively carved 17th-century overmantel. The staircase hall features 19th-century panelling with decorative strapwork to some doorways. An open well staircase has turned balusters and carved tread ends, with a large rectangular light above. A suite of rooms off the hall feature decorative plaster ceilings, cornices, decorative doorcases and fireplaces. The first floor includes some panelled rooms and others with decorative plasterwork, cornices, fireplaces and doorcases.