The Roses

TWINSTEAD TWINSTEAD GREEN TL 83 NE

5/10000 The Roses

• II

Villa, circa 1850. Red brick stuccoed and lined for ashlar except rear wing of exposed red brick. Red brick chimney stacks rebuilt. Welsh slate roof. Two storeys, three bays, central hallway plan. Greek Doric porch distyle in antis, double half-glazed doors with arched lights and internal shutters set in glazed timber screen with narrow pilasters and rectangular fanlights. Tripartite sashes with margin glazing in eared moulded architraves and cornice hoods. First floor cill band. First floor sashes with margin glazing in eared moulded architraves. Window of three round arched lights with pilaster jambs to centre over porch. Central light has sash door to roof of porch. Side elevations of three bays, sashes with margin glazing in moulded architraves flanking blind panels in moulded architraves to centre bay, round arched to first floor. Rear elevation has half-glazed door with fanlight surmounted by round-arched sash with margin glazing and moulded architrave to stair. Two further sashes to left in architraves. Rear wing of four bays, door with fanlight to angle, 12-pane sashes under cambered gauged brick arches. Overhanging eaves with paired brackets. Interior: staircase with turned balusters, ramped and wreathed mahogany handrail with columbine carved detail to base, running dog detail to tread ends. Hall ceiling with plaster rose and cornice. Room to left: marble fireplace with console brackets, egg and dart cornice, ceiling frieze with roundels. Reveals fully panelled with shutters, carved gilt-wood pelmets. Room to right: black marble fireplace with cast iron grate, moulded cornice. Reveals fully panelled with shutters, timber curtain pole, moulded pelmet. Room to rear right: white marble fireplace with cast iron grate. Rear wing, middle room with painted stone fireplace, shutters; end room has painted stone fireplace, pump, stone sink. First floor front right, front left rooms have marble fireplaces flanked by closets. Other bedrooms have painted stone fireplaces. All internal doors original, four-panelled. The rear wing contains butler's pantries and servants' hall and back kitchen-scullery, both with ranges in large fireplaces, the scullery complete with pump and sink. The house is remarkable because of its exceptionally complete and unaltered state of preservation.

Listing NGR: TL8504136160