Houghton Poultry Research Station

HOUGHTON AND WYTON HOUGHTON ROAD 1. 5140 Houghton Houghton Poultry Research Station TL 27 SE 6/4 II 2. Elizabethan Revival country house dated 1897 on tympanum. Architect, Ransome; built for C H Coote (monograms on north facing chimney plaques). Symmetrical plan, two- storeys and attics. Red brick with rustic stone foundations and moulded plinth band. Plain tile gable roofs. Stone copings to four facade gables with ball finials to garden elevation. Stone ovolo moulded mullions and transomes to first-floor range of four four-light windows with leaded lights. Two windows to left and right hand with full length casements to balconies with stone balustrades above two pentagonal bay windows. Central garden door, half-glazed in stop moulded stone architrave with dentil cornice and segmental pediment. Two three-light windows flank doorway. Two slightly projecting gable wings with gable stacks in north elevation, and central two-storey closed porch. Oak door in four-centred arch with carved spandrels and dentil cornice. Very fine five-light mullion and transomed windows with similar side lights and segmental pediment. Interior: Original oak panelling, staircases and chimney pieces intact. Hand forged iron ware. (N Pevsner p 267).

Listing NGR: TL2956272002