Earlsdale

SJ 40 NW PONTESBURY C.P. -

4/139 Earlsdale -

GV II

Small country house. Mainly 1820-30 for William Heighway, but incorporating parts of a late C17 stone farmhouse. Painted brick facade, slate hipped roof and red brick stacks. Late C17 house L-shaped with Gothick facade to north and west walls; a studio in the form of a low embattled tower was erected on second floor to south c.1920. Two storeys, embattled eaves parapet; 4-bay north front has 2-storey embattled porch with stepped buttresses and oriel window to third bay from left; windows all Gothick casements, 2-lights to first floor and lower right (now blind) with hood- moulds; 4-light canted bay-windows with embattled parapets to left and right of porch; 2-storey canted bay north-west corner also with Gothick fenestration. Interior: not inspected, but, with the exception of a doorcase with a broken pediment in the principal ground floor room, there are said to be no original Gothick features. V.C.H. VIII (1968), Pp.254-5.

Listing NGR: SJ4120405774