The Red House

SO 97 SE 666/5/10011

BROMSGROVE FIERY HILL ROAD Barnt Green No.10, The Red House

II

House. 1901 remodelling by Charles E. Bateman of a late C18/early C19 farmhouse; for Arthur Elsmere Harris of Harris and Sheldon, shopfitters. Red brick with some sandstone dressings. Clay plain tile roof with gabled ends. Brick gable-end and axial stacks with grouped shafts. PLAN: T-shaped plan house, remodelled in 1901 with a porch and wing added to the north front and a service wing on the west side, in the Domestic Revival style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical north front with gabled 2-storey porch at centre with sandstone ashlar ground floor with moulded Tudor arch doorway with carved coat of arms above, flanking 3-light windows and 4-light stone mullion window above; gabled wing on right and single-storey service wing range on extreme right [W]. South garden front 3:1 bays with gable-ended wing on right with garden door to side of projecting stack; 2,3 and 5-light caserments with small panes, ground floor left 5-light window has leaded panes and two windows above have been replaced with C20 casements; cambered brick arches; gabled brick porch to left of centre with arched doorway and C20 glazed door. Circa early C20 conservatory on left [SW] corner. INTERIOR fundamentally remodelled in 1901. Porch leads to large central hall with exposed ceiling beams and joists, wall-framing with large plaster panels and integral doorframes with cambered arches, cornices and panelled and glazes doors, simple chimneypiece with panelled pilasters and panelled overmantel; in hall large framed cartoon of St Augustine telling King Ethelbert of Kent about Jesus Christ, by Henry Payne. Rising from the hall is a wide oak staircase with pierced balusters. Some of the ceiling beams are reused from the earlier farmhouse. SOURCE: Crawford, A., A Tour in North Worcestershire, Saturday 9th July 1977, p.11; Victorian Society, Birmingham Group.

Listing NGR: SO9997973467