Egerton House Including, To North And East, House Stable Yard And Staff Accommodation And Garden Walls

This is a small country house built in 1891 for Lord Ellesmere. It is constructed of painted red brick with applied timber frame decoration to the attic floors, and has a red plain tile roof with patterned ridge tiles. There are three tall, pilastered red brick stacks. The house is two storeys high with attics, and has a three-gabled, asymmetric facade with boarded and coved eaves and barge boards. The recessed main entrance features Ionic fluted pilasters, an elliptical arch with a key block, and is approached by steps. It has half-glazed double doors and side lights. There are five mullioned and transomed casement windows on each floor, including a large two-storey staircase window. Two hipped dormer windows are also present. The building has a moulded band between the floors and a plinth.

Inside, the staircase hall contains a fine original dog leg staircase with a balustrade featuring turned pine balusters. Several fine stone and marble fireplaces, likely introduced later, are found throughout the house. The north-east Billiard Room features a late 19th-century coloured marble fireplace and an elaborate late 20th-century trompe l'oeil mural depicting architectural framework, equestrian paintings, and bookcases.

Attached to the north and east of the house are high brick garden walls, which form an enclosed walled garden to the north and connect to the house's coach house and stabling block to the north-west, alongside another brick-walled garden to the north. The stable block has a U-plan and is constructed in a similar style to the main house, with red brick and a timber-framed frieze and gable tops. It has a plain tile roof with moulded stacks. Accommodation includes a garage with sliding doors, former stabling under a pentice roof, and domestic accommodation with a three-light oriel window in the end gable and bays to the ground floor facing the stable quadrangle. Dormers are positioned above.

The house and stables were designed as part of a planned racehorse training establishment and were leased in 1892 to Richard Marsh, trainer to the Prince of Wales, and later to George V and George VI.