Te Hira Including Gate Piers Immediately North West

RUGBY MOULTRIE ROAD SP 5074 NE 4/159 Nos 21/23 (Te Hira) including Gate-Piers immediately North West II GV

House, now old peoples' home. Early C20 with late C20 alterations. Architect not known. Roughcast brick with stone dressings, some slate hanging on first floor and a little timber framing over porch. Cumberland slate roof with hipped and gabled ends, lead rolls to ridge and deep sprocketed eaves with wrought-iron gutter brackets. Roughcast brick axial and lateral stacks with moulded stone cornices and squat yellow clay pots, one with diagonally-set shafts. Principal rooms on south garden front and central entrance hall on north side with stairhall to left and service rooms in wing on left (NE). Arts and Crafts style, rather in the manner of Voysey. Two storeys and attic. Asymmetrical south front. Roughcast projecting gable to right of centre and parapeted bay to its left with stone mullion windows; deep eaves to left and right with slate hung first floor below on moulded bressumers. Casement windows with leaded panes and ornate catches. Semi-circular bay window on west side. North entrance front has recessed porch at centre with wide segmental stone arch inner doorway and Tuscan columns supporting close-studded timber frame first floor. Flanked by large lateral stack on right and polygonal turret on left, to left of which is a large 4-light stone mullion-transom stair window and another lateral stack with low service wing projecting below. On east side a late C20 conservatory and in 1990 a bay window was built on right side of south front and a slate hung lift tower was built on west side. Including coeval gate-piers immediately north-west; limestone blocks with bands of coursed slate and with stone caps; wrought iron gates are late C20.

Interior: Much of the original joinery survives. Inglenook in hall, and other chimneypieces, one with mirror over mantel, panelled doors with original latches and dog-leg staircase with moulded balusters and square newels with finials. Some Art Nouveau electric light switches.

Listing NGR: SP5067674935