Lutwyche Hall

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SO59SE Lutwyche Hall 1312-1/8/179 12/11/54

GV II

House, then school, now house. Dated 1587. For Judge Edward Lutwyche. Mid C18 extension. Mid C19 remodelling and extensions, dated 1859, by S Pountney Smith, restored c1989. MATERIALS: brick, with ashlar dressings to quoins, moulded storey bands, mullion and transom windows with moulded surrounds, moulded cornice, gable copings with ball finials, balustraded parapets with corner finials; leaded lights throughout. Plain-tile roofs, hipped to lower wing, with coped gables. Large lateral integral brick ridge stacks with connected diagonal spur-moulded shafts with oversailing caps. Main building PLAN: E-shaped, but courtyards between arms filled by late C19 brick extensions. EXTERIOR: main block is 3-storey and side wings 2-storey and attic. South-east front is a 3-storey, 5-window range. C19 central infilling extension comprising recessed entrance porch with ornate Jacobean-style 2-storey ashlar door surround incorporating oriel window and ornate cresting, all set under shaped gable flanked by advanced pavilions of 3 storeys with ornate balustrades. Main flanking gables have 2 projecting wings with 2-storey bay windows with ornate balusters. Rear: mirrors the south-east front except that the C19 infilling extension projects with a 2-storey hipped wing with projecting 2-storey bay window on this extension instead of the main flanking gables. South-west side: 2-storey, 5-window front with second and fourth bays advanced and rising into third storey with gables projecting past eaves. Central bay with projecting single-storey bay window. North-east side covered by 2-storey extension wing; 7-window front of projecting single window bay to left, and 2 window bays to right in the same style as the main block, then a recessed 4-window link of plain brick segmental arched casements. The rear of extension wing is an 8-window range of casements in segmental-arched openings. INTERIOR: good restored C18 plasterwork in hall and late C16 panelling in dining room. Mid C18 staircase.

Listing NGR: SO5563594634