Debden Mount

Debden Mount is a house dating from around 1840, with a later extension built around 1960. It is constructed with a timber frame, covered in stucco, and has a slate roof. The house comprises two parallel ranges, running approximately east-west, with full-length corridors on both floors. The main entrance is at the west end, and reception rooms are to the south of the corridor, with a central chimney stack. Service rooms are to the north of the corridor, featuring two internal chimney stacks. There’s also a disused and truncated external chimney stack at the west end of the south range.

The west elevation has a central flat-roofed porch with a six-panel door and a round-arched fanlight. A double-hung sash window of six lights, from the mid-19th century, with external louvred shutters, is on the north side. The south side of this elevation has an external stack. The first floor features a central window of eight lights with a round-arched head, and a sash window similar to the ground floor window on the north side. The south (garden) elevation has four French windows, each with external louvred shutters, dating from the early 19th century. Above are four double-hung sash windows of six lights, dating from the mid-19th century, and also featuring external louvred shutters. Stucco is applied to suggest stone blocks and a string course runs along the first floor level. The roof is hipped and has a shallow pitch. The chimney stacks are rendered with cement and have vertical slots between the flues. Originally, according to the owner, there was a tented canopy on the south elevation. The octagonal chimney pots from the house have been re-used as garden features. A ground floor room in the southwest corner has a ceiling with a moulded border of acanthus design, while a ground floor room in the southeast corner has a moulded border of anthemion and egg-and-dart design. A shallow arch, supported on brackets of Corinthian design, is located at the east end of the corridor on the first floor.