Youngbury And Garden Wall Attached On North

Youngbury is a country house with attached garden walls located on the north side of Standon North Drive, dating back to the 18th century. The house features the inscription 'DP 1745' carved on a stone string on the east side and was originally built for David Poole. It was improved and enlarged after 1769 for David Barclay, with the surrounding park landscaped by 'Capability' Brown. The house includes an early 19th-century terrace and a northern service extension.

The top floor has been removed, and a porticoed entrance was added on the west side, along with internal alterations around 1950. A roof balustrade with urns was added some years later. The building is constructed of plum red brick with scattered vitrified grey headers and has a slate roof behind a balustraded parapet. It was designed as a pedimented Palladian villa with three storeys, three windows wide, facing south, and features a columned porch. The side elevations have five windows, and the house has now been reduced to two storeys.

The central window on the first floor of the south front is set in a wide round-arched recess, with recessed sash windows featuring 6/6 panes and gauged flat arches. There is a stucco floor band, and a French window has replaced the original door, with moulded red brick surrounds added to the window on each side, matching the single-storey pilastered extension on the west side that incorporates a four-column Doric porch with a panelled entrance door and fanlight.

The east front has five windows with recessed sash windows under flat arches and a central glazed door. A straight joint indicates the extent of the original villa. To the right, there is a lower two-storey 19th-century block linking to an 18th-century two-storey old brewhouse range, which includes a six-sided tall louvred game larder. At the southwest, a curved red brick retaining wall extends to red brick piers with wrought iron gates.

Inside, the hall features Ionic fluted columns, and there is an oval toplight above the stair with Regency-style ironwork and cornices. The stair was installed around 1950 and is from a wing of Chiswick House. The extensive walled gardens are made of 18th-century red brick, although 19th-century Hitch bricks are used at the northwest next to Home Farm.