The Red House School And Flanking Walls

OVERBURY CP - SO 9437 - 9537 9/129 21/3 The Red House School and flanking walls 30-7-59 (formerly listed as Red House) - I

Shown on the OS map as The Red House. House, now private school and flanking walls. Mid-C18, altered and extended 1901 and 1910 by Ernest Newton for Richard Biddulph Martin. Red brick with limestone ashlar dressings and base; plain tiled hipped roofs behind parapets and with brick end stacks. Three storeys and cellar, ashlar band at first floor level and moulded cornice beneath parapet. Three bays with rusticated end quoins. Windows all have stone architraves; outer bays have Venetian windows on all floors with four consoles beneath jambs, moulded keyblocks and 12-pane central sashes with traceried upper glazing bars and 8-pane outer sashes. Windows in central bay have two consoles beneath jambs, moulded cor- nices and 12-pane sashes. Central entrance has a pediment and entablature on simple engaged columns, a half-glazed door and a transom light with three glazing bars. It is reached by two flights of four steps with cast iron rail- ings which have a scrolled frieze at the base and the two central standards have small ball finials. Large two-storey wing adjoins to rear right by Newton using similar materials and details. Flanking walls probably also by Newton. Brick on tall ashlar base with ashlar coping. Both walls are about 12 feet high and five yards long and set back slightly from the front elevation. At the centre of each wall is a gateway with a plain stone architrave and broad lintel and a timber gate with a decorative openwork "Chinese Chippendale" upper panel [cf main staircase balustrade on second floor of Northlands House (qv) and Sunny Bank Cottage (qv)]. (Newton, W G: The Life and Works of Ernest Newton, London, 1925; BoE, p 233).

Listing NGR: SO9588237619