Mount Pleasant

HAMPTON LUCY

SP25NW SNITTERFIELD ROAD 1457-1/9/67 (South side) 05/06/87 Mount Pleasant

GV II

Farmhouse. Mid C18 with mid C19 and C20 alterations and additions. Built as an estate farm for the Lucy family of Charlecote Park. Brick, south elevation in rat-trap bond with buff headers; tile roofs with brick end stacks. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attic; symmetrical 3-window range. Brick plinth, 2 plat bands and top modillioned brick cornice with central pediment. Segmental-headed entrance has C20 doorcase with pairs of Doric columns and hood. Windows have 3-light transomed casements, but central first-floor window has cross-casement; attic has Diocletian window to pediment and flanking gabled dormers with 2-light casements. Rear has large 2-storey wing, to right of 2 shorter lower wings, with single-storey wing to end and catslide outshut to inner return, which has return C20 canted bay and returns as porch with round arch and C20 inner entrance; to left return of wing to left a 2-storey canted bay with small-paned gables to windows. INTERIOR: upper flights of C18 stick-baluster staircase; some panelling in upper rooms; original roof structure.

Listing NGR: SP2469457883