Leintwardine House And Garden Walls Attached To East

SO 4074 - 4174 LEINTWARDINE CP HIGH STREET (east side)

10/61 Leintwardine House and garden walls attached to east

GV II

House and garden walls. Early C19 with earlier origins. Sandstone rubble and brick mainly colour-washed. Welsh slate roofs, some hipped. Roughly rectangular plan with main front to south. Two and three storeys. South elevation has 2:1:1 windows, glazing bar sashes. Slightly advanced asymmetrically positioned three-storey gable is flanked by two pairs of early C19 tripartite sashes, one to each floor. The left side has an orthodox first floor sash as does the first floor of the gable. Top floor of gable has round headed window. Entry to gable has restored porch with two unfluted Doric columns, fluted frieze and cornice. Glazed and panelled C19 door. Attached to the left is a lower two-storey wing. Garden walls to right are brick in the form of a blind segmental arcade with six arches aligned east/west and three more returning southwards at east end to a downward quadrant ramp. The north and east side of the walls are finished in rubble and the first contains bee boles. Interior of house has flagged stone floors with diaper pattern. Cantilevered early C19 two-flight stair- case; the first flight has stone treads, the second mahogany. Turned newel posts and stick balusters and wreathed handrail with ivory inlay at bottom. Hall has moulded plaster frieze with acanthus decoration. To rear of hall is an internal fanlight with a dropped keystone. Seventeen service bells in former kitchen to north. Leintwardine House was the home of General Sir Barastre Tarleton, youthful British hero of the American War of Independence, later friend of the Prince of Wales, and lover of the Prince's ex-mistress, the actress, Mary Robinson, known as Perdita. His monument is in the Church of St Barnabas (qv). (Bowater, V: The Church of St Mary Magdalene, Leintwardine, 1978).

Listing NGR: SO4041573944