Titley Court And Adjoining Stable

SO 35 NW TITLEY CP TITLEY

7/53 Titley Court and adjoining stable

19.8.53 - II

Country house and adjoining stable. Dates from the C17 but extensively remodelled during C18 and mid- to late C19, late C18 stable block. Possibly originally a timber-framed house but has been completely remodelled in sandstone rubble and brick, with ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof, sand- stone rubble stable block with ashlar dressings and part Welsh slate and part stone slate roof. Irregular plan, generally L-shaped with many gables running across the line of the two wings, several axial stacks, some with decorative grouped shafts, two-storey projecting porch to west side. Further entrance to centre of south wing. Stable block aligned east/west adjoins to east of west wing. Two storeys, attics and cellars. South front: crenellated turret at corner to left and six uneven gables to entrance front, central gable with small semi-circular window in gable, two-centred arched head to first floor opening with glazing bar sash window and decorative glazing in head, two- centred arched head to doorway with part-glazed door with two similar shaped lights. This central bay is flanked to the left by a gabled two-storey and attic canted bay with central pointed arched head to attic window and square headed openings flanking central pointed window with glazing bar sash windows, plain sash windows to the ground floor; further to the left is a gabled bay with a pair of decorative pointed windows to the attic and two square headed openings with glazing bar sash windows to the first floor, these windows have a panel of mock glazing fixed above echoeing the decorative glazing of the central pointed windows of the previous two bays; 4-light window to ground floor; paired semi-circular headed windows to the turret. A similar canted bay of two storeys with attics flanks the entrance bay to the right, this has square-headed stone mullioned and transomed windows of three lights, one similar 2-light window below each of the two remaining gables to the right, here the ground floor projects forward with two canted bays and has a blocked crenellated parapet and plain sash windows; mainly decorative bargeboards to gables. The west side has square headed windows with 2- and 3-light mullioned and transomed windows. The stable block to the rear has a central projecting gable, capped by a decorative octagonal lantern, dentilled eaves cornice, pointed arched head to central window with decorative glazing, two segmental headed carriage entrances. Clock face in gable. The interior was inaccessible at the time of resurvey during April 1986,.but is said to retain the fine late C17 plastered ceiling divided into nine panels by heavily moulded and enriched trabeations with decorative floral and folial detail in the panels, there are also two fine C17 overmantels. (RCHM, Vol III, p 191; BoE, p 300).

Listing NGR: SO3307259621