Flamstead House

FLAMSTEAD RIVER HILL TL 0714 (West side) 9/51 - Flamstead House - II

Large house. C18 or earlier rear wing and kitchen, front block has inscribed stone plaque 'FLAMSTEAD HOUSE/The East front/ Erected by/ JOHN COLLINS/in the year 1782'. S wing early C19. Extensive alterations, bay windows and roughcast to E front in 1920s. Red brick, roughcast at E front, hipped slate roofs. A large L-shaped house facing E with tall single-storey rear kitchen wing to 2 storeys front block with 2-storeys extension in NW angle for dining room, and long 2-storeys S block facing W into yard at rear. Symmetrical 3-windows long front block with central entrance on E. Recessed sash windows with 6/6 panes. Stucco plinth. Stone tablet about 30cm square near S end. Greek Doric porch on 2 columns with full entablature and low pitched triangular pediment. Minor order in jambs of doorway support architrave below 3-lights fanlight with rounded corners to lights. 2 4-panels divided doors. Flat soffit to eaves. Long range to S has 2-storeys half-octagonal bay window with small-panes casements. Irregular fenestration and brick lean-to. Similar 2-storeys bay added to N end of front block with casements and parapet. 2-storeys, 3 windows dining room extension facing N has 3 French windows and sash windows to 1st floor with 6/6 panes. S side of rear wing has 2 recessed sash windows to 1st floor with 6/8 panes. C18 6-panels fielded door with lean-to slated porch on 2 heavy Greek Doric columns to left of triple sash window under deep red brick gauged arch with 1/2:4/8:1/2 panes. Single-storey tall kitchen to W of cross-passage served by door. Outside N door of passage is a shelter over a well with large iron steam-pump still complete. Formal W front to S wing. 5 windows long in red and grey brick and flat arches to sash windows with 6/6 panes and plastered reveals. Triple sash 1/2:4/8:1/2 to ground floor at left. S gable end has corner pilasters and projecting central chimney with 2 round arched recesses and 2 3-light casement windows.

Listing NGR: TL0794414896