Radbrook Manor With Attached Wall And Gates

Radbrook Manor, now a country club, has origins in the 16th century, with a substantial west and garden front dating to around 1720. It has undergone alterations and additions in the 20th century. The building is constructed of brick laid in Flemish bond, with ashlar dressings, and has a renewed pantile roof with brick end stacks. It is of early Georgian style, forming an L-shape with later rear wings and an infill section.

The exterior is two storeys with a symmetrical 2:3:2-bay facade, and the central section projects slightly under a pediment. It features a moulded plinth, rusticated quoins to the ends, and Doric angle pilasters to the centre. The top cornice and stone-coped brick parapet include heads of what are likely Shakespearean characters and ball finials. The centre has an entablature with a triglyph frieze; the pediment displays an armorial cartouche within the tympanum and an urn finial. The entrance has an architrave and consoled entablature above an 8-panel door with alternate pairs and single panels. Segmental-headed windows have simple architraves with guttae to the moulded sills, and key blocks over 9/9 thick-bar casements, ovolo-moulded on the inside, likely originally sashes. The left return has a returned cornice and parapet, and segmental-headed windows with keyed brick arches over pegged cross-casements with leaded glazing, and 20th-century sills.

The rear, reportedly of 16th-century origin, includes two 19th-century wings with modillioned brick cornices and half-hipped gables, one with a large 19th-century stained glass window, and a large two-storey 20th-century block in between. The right return also features a returned cornice and parapet, with a late 20th-century, single-storey swimming pool range added to the right.

The interior has been largely altered in the mid-to-late 20th century and contains a small 20th-century Imperial staircase with flanking Corinthian columns and fluted pilasters. One room has richly carved panelling and a contemporary fireplace with a vine-trail cornice; another has reproduction Adam-style features. A late 20th-century toilet room has mirrored walls and a black satin tent-like ceiling. In the rear there is a round vaulted cellar with a spiral staircase leading to a central shaft, and drainage channels to the floor.

The subsidiary features consist of stone-coped brick walls approximately 13.5 metres long flanking the front garden. The front wall has a bowed centre with low walls supporting railings and piers with cornices and ball finials. The centre gate has fielded-panel gate piers with cornices and urn finials (different from those to the house), and enriched paired iron gates with an overthrow bearing a monogram. Historical records from the 18th century mention a Robert Burton as owner.

The manor is significant for its facade and gates.