Turvey House

Turvey House is a small country house built between 1793 and 1794, with an additional top storey likely added around 1830 when the garden front was constructed. The building is finished in stucco and has a Welsh slate roof. It stands three storeys tall, featuring a garden front with seven bays, where the central and end bays project forward. The end bays are adorned with fluted Corinthian columns that rise two storeys, flanking a first-floor window with a bas relief frieze, while the ground floor window is supported by Corinthian columns and a broken entablature. The central bay showcases fluted pilasters with anthemion capitals. Above the first floor, there is a large entablature with a foliated frieze and a cornice decorated with dentils and mutules. The attic storey features a smaller dentil cornice and a blocking course with scroll pediments at the central and end sections, with the central pediment topped by a large anthemion motif. The ground floor windows have architrave surrounds and ribbed consoles supporting cornices. The first-floor windows are framed with eared architraves, and there is a bas relief panel over the central window, which is embellished with corn ear mouldings in the frieze. The second-floor windows have moulded surrounds. A terrace at the southwest front has a balustraded parapet. To the right, there is a recessed tower and a later two-storey wing. The north front features a tetrastyle Doric porch leading to a pedimented central projection, with slight end projections, all dating from around 1793, except for the attic storey which is from the early 19th century. A cylindrical lantern, visible above the attic, illuminates the dome of the staircase hall. Inside, the staircase hall boasts a coffered dome, while the first-floor apse, located over the entrance hall, has a semi-circular plan with fluted Corinthian columns and a ribbed dome. The drawing room features a panelled ceiling and a serpentine chimneypiece supported by console brackets.