The Lawn

The Lawn is a house on Rochford Hall Road with 18th and 19th century features, likely built on earlier foundations. Alterations and additions were made over time, some by the architect John Johnson. The building is constructed of stuccoed brick with various grey slate roofs and stands two storeys high.

The plan is complex, arranged around a courtyard now open to the west. The main east-facing elevation comprises five bays with a forward range of two bays to the right and a single-storey loggia return to the left. A parapet runs across the right bays with a heavy band beneath. The three central bays of the main range are pedimented, whilst the end bays feature urn balusters to the parapet. A central band extends through the right range. Rusticated quoins articulate the ground floor corners and angles.

Windows throughout are small-paned vertically-sliding sashes with moulded surrounds; those on the ground floor are taller and topped with moulded cornices. The first floor windows have 20th-century shutters. The loggia return features a fluted column with moulded capital and base to the left, with a small-paned round-headed window between the column and a small right pilaster.

A central portico dominates the main range, with square pilasters and outer columns having capitals and bases; inner Ionic columns support the flat canopy. The outer door is three-panelled with a rectangular fanlight above featuring semi-circular tracery. The inner doorway has a moulded surround with a frieze of swag decoration and a flat canopy on brackets.

The south elevation displays seven bays with a panelled and pilastered parapet. A plastered external chimney stack rises from the sixth bay. The central three bays break forward with a pediment piercing the parapet and a band beneath. Bays one, three, five and seven contain small-paned vertically-sliding sashes with 20th-century shutters; bays two and four feature small-paned French windows with fanlights above and shutters to bay two.

A full-width parapeted loggia extends across the ground floor. Its right and left parapet bays are panelled, whilst the central bays have urn balusters between pilasters. Six Ionic and square fluted end columns support the canopy. The left west return is open with a fluted pilaster to the house wall. Tall small-paned vertically-sliding sash windows light bays one through three and bay seven of the house wall, with central French windows and a semi-circular fanlight over.

The left (west) return of this range is parapeted with panels to the parapet and a band beneath, plus a central band. Rusticated quoins articulate the ground floor. Five bays each contain a first-floor window with moulded surrounds; the right window is blocked, and the two left window cills are narrower and lower than the central band. Various small-paned windows appear on the ground floor, with two left and far right having moulded surrounds whose heads are blocked; the far right is fully blocked. A central small-paned round-headed window with moulded surround also appears on this elevation, along with small-paned sashes to the left.

The range to the north of the courtyard is a later addition of painted brick with a hipped grey slate roof.

The interior contains a fine hall with a wrought iron balustrade to the balcony and stairs, some featuring an S motif. Square fluted columns support the balcony, which has a moulded cornice and frieze decorated with urns and swags. Six-panelled doors with moulded surrounds appear throughout, with panelled shutters to windows. Similar doors and mouldings appear in the south-facing rooms.