Wargrave House And Sttached Walls And Railings

Wargrave House, formerly known as No. 13 St Owen Street, is a house that has been converted into a surgery and offices. It dates from the 18th century, with a front added in the mid-19th century to an earlier core. The rear features Dutch gables and an attached orangery. The building is constructed of brick and has a Welsh slate roof with brick end stacks. It stands three storeys high with a cellar and has a five-window range. The mid-19th century plain sash windows have corbelled sills and moulded architraves with hoods, along with a stone band and 3/3 sashes above. A corbelled stone cornice runs along the parapet.

The central entrance has a four-fielded-panel door with an overlight and screen, set in a stucco doorcase beneath a moulded stone hood supported by polished granite columns. This entrance is flanked by pairs of plain sashes in similar cases. There are two-storey wings on either side, featuring 6/6 sashes and a part-glazed panelled door with an overlight on the left. The wing walls are adorned with ornate iron railings, pillars, gate piers, and double gates.

Inside, the house boasts an 18th-century open well staircase with bobbin balusters, 18th-century panelling, and a moulded ceiling. There is a margin-glazed round-headed staircase light and marble columns and pilasters. The top floor contains two-panel doors, 19th-century fireplaces, and a stair cupboard. The first floor features a bolection-moulded fireplace, ceiling cornice, six-panel doors, overlights, four-panel doors, a corner fireplace, wall cupboards, and additional panelling, including a 17th-century carved overmantel that is not in its original position.

On the ground floor, the rear wing has a ceiling cornice, architraves, a carved fire surround and overmantel, a moulded four-centred arch fireplace, and part-glazed panelled doors, two of which have rounded heads. There is also a three-light door with coloured leaded lights, ceiling cornices, coved panelling, and an alcove with a sideboard. The hall features what may be 17th-century panelling with a frieze and panelled doors. The cellar includes a round-headed door, a cobbled floor, two two-panel doors, and is mostly brick-lined.

The house is reputed to have been the Town House of the Scudamore family, whose main residence was Home Lacy House. The fine panelling on the first-floor landing may have originated from there.