Hawstead House

SP 1037 BROADWAY CP HIGH STREET (south side) 9/113 No 143 Hawsted House (formerly listed as Wychwood House) 30.7.59 GV II House. Early C18 with extensions and alterations of c1900 by A N Prentice. Squared limestone with stone slate roof. Two storeys with attic. Earliest part, facing road, of three bays with drip course over ground floor windows. Windows are rebated and chamfered and of two lights. Two hipped attic dormers with ball finials. Central window on ground floor possibly replaces doorway. Gables coped, with chimneys which have cyma cornices. Set back at the left (east) is an added range of one storey with attic which has mullioned windows. Projecting forwards from it is a single-storey wing which has a chimney stack projecting from its front gable wall. At the rear of the original house is a wing which has windows with plain reveals and a doorway under a stone-slated open porch. This forms a link to a rear block by Prentice which has a hipped roof, and a main facade facing south towards the garden. The ground floor windows have transoms: in the centre is a canted bay window which has three lights at the front and two to each side; it is flanked by 2-light windows. On the first floor are four 2-light windows and a central recessed panel with a sundial inscribed: "SINE SOLE SILEO".

Listing NGR: SP1040937553