Fillongley Hall And Attached Outbuildings

Fillongley Hall is a country house built around 1830 by J.L. Ackroyd for Rev. Bowyer Adderley. The structure is primarily made of brick and stucco, with some ashlar elements, and features slate roofs with a blocked parapeted main cornice. The house has a double-pile plan with offices and services located on the west side and stands two storeys tall.

The principal front showcases an Ionic portico in antis, flanked by four twelve-pane hung sash windows on the ground floor and similar windows above on the first floor. The east front includes a single-storey library wing, also stuccoed, which has an apsed end with three bays, each containing a full-height 15-pane hung sash. The south front, facing the garden, consists of seven bays with recessed 12-pane hung sashes in raised surrounds and full-length ground floor casements. A verandah with a lean-to roof is supported by cast-iron columns, and a projecting wing is located at the west end, featuring similar fenestration.

Inside, the hall is illuminated by a dome and supported by four giant Ionic columns made of scagliola. The hall features neo-classical stucco spandrel mouldings, and the pedimented double doors lead to an ante-room with curved ends. There is an enfilade of a dining room and drawing room, both equipped with marble fireplaces and similar stucco ceiling mouldings, along with shaped wood pelmets that are gilded. The library at the east end of the house has bays on three walls, each with a screen of Ionic columns also made of scagliola. A ground floor room, formerly a butler's pantry, contains a late 18th-century Adam-type fireplace. An open well staircase, also toplit by an oval dome, features an open string design with column-on-vase balusters.