Orleton House, Middle House, and Orleton Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 2001. House. 3 related planning applications.
Orleton House, Middle House, and Orleton Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hidden-courtyard-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 2001
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orleton House, Middle House and Orleton Cottage is a house and associated service range, dated 1858, incorporating a circa 17th century core. The building is constructed of red brick with blue brick diapering, quoins, and stone dressings. It has a clay tile roof with shaped gables featuring obelisk finials, along with brick stacks with thin shafts, corbelled brick caps and louvred yellow clay pots.
The house has a double-depth plan with a central entrance leading to a central stairhall, with service rooms to the west, and a detached former service range to the north. The architectural style is Jacobean.
The asymmetrical north-east front has two storeys, an attic, a cellar, and is arranged in a 1:2 bay layout. A gabled projection on the left features a two-storey canted bay, and the right has two windows with shaped gable dormers above. The windows are stone mullion-transom windows with iron casements. The south-east return has two projecting gables, with a two-storey canted bay on the left and a narrow recess between containing a dated shield. The south-west elevation is gabled on the left and has a lateral stack on the right. The north-west elevation, facing a courtyard, has gabled ends and a pyramidal roof over a servants' stair tower with a bellcote topped with a weathervane.
The detached service range to the north of the front has a two-storey, 3:3 bay front with an octagonal pavilion on the right, featuring a four-centred arch doorway and two-light stone mullion windows with iron casements. Earlier brickwork is visible at the rear.
The interior features high-quality oak joinery, including panelled doors and an open-well staircase with turned balusters, panelled newels with onion finials. There are also moulded ceiling cornices, chimney pieces, and a newel. A brick fireplace, along with some earlier chamfered first and second-floor beams, are located in the north corner of the house. Brick vaulted cellars are present.
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