Mutfords (750 Metres Along Drive)

TL 32 NE HORMEAD BARKWAY ROAD (B1368) (East side) Little Hormead

3/54 Mutfords - (750 m along drive)

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House. Circa 1719 for Samuel Mason, rear extension c.1900. Red brick with roughcast and tile hanging on rear extension. Steep old red tile roofs. An early Georgian house on an ancient moated site, facing S. 2 storeys, attics and cellar, 5 windows wide with 3 hipped dormers. Symmetrical front with rendered plinth, floor band and moulded wooden eaves cornice. Brick-on-edge gable copings. Rubbed brick flat arches to windows on each floor but round headed taller window over central door lighting staircase. Flush box sashes with small panes but some 2/2 C19 sashes remain, 6-panel raised and fielded door with simple wooden moulded doorcase with a swelled frieze and dentilled triangular pediment. On Ground Floor W room has fielded panelling and moulded cornice, E room has panelled dado, ovolo moulded folding shutters, staircase has cut string, barleysugar twist balusters, wreathed foot, and carved ends to treads. The plan is unusual having the stair rising towards and lit from the front wall, cellar under room with W gable fireplace, but chimney of E room backing onto central stair hall.(Jackson (1983)19).

Listing NGR: TL3996628372