Old Baskerville

Old Baskerville is a country house that has been converted into flats. It was built around 1770 to 1780 and has undergone later additions and alterations, including the conversion to flats in 1975. The building is constructed of red brick with stone and painted stucco dressings and features a two-span slate roof with parapeted gables and shortened end stacks with renewed cappings. It has wrought-iron balconettes and a double-depth plan with a central through-hallway and flanking wings.

The front (east) elevation stands three storeys high and has five first-floor windows arranged in a 2:1:2 pattern. The stone and stucco detailing includes a frieze, modillion cornice, blocking course, porch, sills, and capped fluted keystones above the window heads. Most windows are 6/6 sashes, except for the second floor which has 3/3 sashes, all set in plain reveals with sills and flat gauged brick arches. The central entrance features an Ionic-style porch adorned with swags on the frieze, a six-panel door, and a radial pattern fanlight with segmental margin-glazing.

The flanking wings are set back at the returns, with the south wing being single-storey and the north wing three-storey. The fenestration on the north wing matches that of the main elevation, featuring a six-panel door on the ground floor with a three-pane overlight under a flat gauged brick arch with a keystone, and a matching door in the south wing.

The garden (west) elevation is similar to the front but has a two-storey flat-roofed projection to the right (south) of the entrance door. The first floor has 6/9 sashes with scrolled-heart design balconettes, and there are two pairs of French windows on the ground floor that are a later addition. The central entrance features an open-pedimented doorcase with pilasters, a part-glazed door with the bottom pair of panels being flush-beaded, and a radial pattern fanlight.

Inside, the entrance hall retains an open-well staircase with winders, a wreathed handrail, and square balusters, along with a modillion plaster cornice. There are six-panel doors with convex reeded architraves, friezes, cornices, and lion-mask paterae at the corners. The rest of the interior was not inspected.