Baron Villa

OVERBURY CP - SO 9437 - 9537 9/106 Baron Villa - II

House. Late C18, altered c1905 by Ernest Newton for Richard Biddulph Martin. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; plain tiled roof with gable- end parapets. Large ashlar ridge stack to east of centre, also west end ridge stack with two shafts and moulded capping. Two storeys and attic with dormers. One plus three bays. Three-bay part has 16-pane sashes with moulded architraves on both floors, a C20 gabled dormer with a 2-light casement and a central entrance which has a wide open pediment on engaged Doric columns, a door with six raised and fielded panels and a transom light with three glazing bars. The left bay has a hipped-roofed two-storey wing with a 2-light casement on both floors and a 5-light casement on the first floor in the angle with the main part. Attic light at east gable end. A single-storey wing adjoins the east side elevation and has a 2-light casement with a cambered head in its east gable end. (Newton, W G: The Life and Works of Ernest Newton, London, 1925).

Listing NGR: SO9568437335