Needwood House

ANSLOW C.P. - SK 12 NE - Needwood House - II

Small country house. Early C19 with mid-C19 additions and C20 alterations. Stuccoed brickwork; hipped slate roof of low pitch and broad eaves; stuccoed and corniced ridge stacks; approximately L-shaped original plan with extensive later additions. Garden front: 2-storey, 3:2:3 window front, glazing bar sashes in moulded surround; (glazing bars removed to ground floor and one converted to French casement) segmental-fronted bays carried through to roof-line and set on to projecting wings flanking central recess with double string between storeys. Lower set-back wing to right. Entrance front: projecting wing to right with stone flat-roofed Tuscan porch set in angle against return; 2 bays to left accommodate 3 storeys within eaves height of main house, extensive lower service wing projects to left. One of a number of houses built by the Bass family, brewers of Burton-on-Trent.

Listing NGR: SK1806825112