Hillside House

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WEELEY TM 12 SE HILLSIDE HOUSE

5/172 CLACTON ROAD

II

House. 1858. Red brick in Flemish bond, roofed in handmade red plain tiles. T shape plan with main elevation facing N.W. Crosswing aligned NW SE main wing at right angles Victorian Gothic Style two storeys with attics. Front elevation comprises gable to crosswing with projecting two storey bay, set back to right of this then two storey entrance porch surmounted by shingled timber bell turret and projecting open porch. Right hand section of elevation is subdivided by brick stack on face with relief panel, canted projecting bay at ground floor level on right hand corner. Windows are timber mullion and transom with diamond leaded lights, rebated in openings with one projecting by at ground floor, and on right hand section at first floor two centre arched heads with decorative moulded bricks. Canted cills beneath. Window on bay has dripmould with flint inset above, and thin brick buttresses on splays. Detail repeated on canted by at RH end. Parapet to crosswing gable, eaves to projecting bays and front elevation incorporate projecting string courses of decorative brick. Front door sits in open recess with two centre segmental brick, archway, made up of two courses, lower ogee moulded. Floor in recess tiled diagonally. Door has thirteen panels, lower six with shields, upper five form part of two centre arch design with decorated spandrels. Heavy doorcase with quadrant and hollow mouldings. Open timber porch in front of entrance. Side (SW) elevation comprises two gables, both with decorative ribs and corbels beneath verge on left hand, and parapet on right. Left gable has recessed roundel in apex, diaper pattern in burnt headers square inset flint panel. Two windows, one central at first floor, one offset at ground floor, both mullion and transom with details similar to front elevation. Right gable apex has decorative roundel with polychrome splayed bricks directly above tripartite window with arched heads. Above first floor large window with two centre brick arched head. Timber tracery in "Y" form, with diamond shaped leaded lights. Roof form irregular with hexagonal structure over entrance porch. Gables have both parapets and variety of bargeboards from simple straight type on two gablets on right hand of front elevation to curved type with fret cut quatrefoil motif on open porch in front of entrance. Decorative ridge tiles. Four stacks each of different design with moulded projecting courses, including dentil. Interior contains many original features including a pilloried central entrance hall with trefoils to the balustrade, high beamed ceilings, gothic panelled doors and an open-well staircase lit by a large gothic window with stained margin panes; but most of the chimney pieces have been removed.

Listing NGR: TM1499921203