Leintwardine House And Garden Walls Attached To East

Leintwardine House and the garden walls attached to the east are a house and garden walls dating from the early 19th century, although they have earlier origins. The structure is built from sandstone rubble and brick, mostly covered in a colour-wash, with some hipped Welsh slate roofs. The house has a roughly rectangular plan with its main facade facing south and consists of two and three storeys. The south elevation features a 2:1:1 arrangement of windows with glazing bar sashes. A slightly advanced three-storey gable is asymmetrically positioned and flanked by two pairs of early 19th-century tripartite sashes, one on each floor. The left side has a traditional first-floor sash, as does the first floor of the gable, while the top floor of the gable has a round-headed window. The entry to the gable includes a restored porch supported by two unfluted Doric columns, with a fluted frieze and cornice, leading to a glazed and panelled 19th-century door. Attached to the left is a lower two-storey wing.

The garden walls to the right are made of brick and feature a blind segmental arcade with six arches aligned east to west, and three more arches returning southwards at the east end, leading to a downward quadrant ramp. The north and east sides of the walls are finished in rubble, with the first side containing bee boles. Inside the house, there are flagged stone floors with a diaper pattern, and a cantilevered early 19th-century staircase with two flights; the first flight has stone treads, while the second is made of mahogany. The staircase features turned newel posts, stick balusters, and a wreathed handrail with ivory inlay at the bottom. The hall has a moulded plaster frieze decorated with acanthus motifs, and at the rear of the hall is an internal fanlight with a dropped keystone. There are also seventeen service bells in the former kitchen to the north. Leintwardine House was once the home of General Sir Banastre Tarleton, a youthful British hero of the American War of Independence, who later became a friend of the Prince of Wales and had a romantic relationship with the Prince's former mistress, the actress Mary Robinson, known as Perdita. His monument can be found in the Church of St Barnabas.