St Margaretsbury Community Home

TL 31NW STANSTEAD STATION ROAD ST MARGARETS (south side) St Margarets village 5/58 St Margaretsbury Community Home

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Former large house now a community home, probably early C19, extended and 'rebuilt' 1890 by Ernest Newton for Septimus Croft, builder J A Hunt, (inscribed inside porch). 2-storeys grey brick double-pile house with complex roofs, slated or tiled with mansards on N side. Sash windows with flat gauged arches and 6/6 panes generally. Plinth, floorband and parapeted eaves. Brick pedimented wing projects on NE with stucco Ionic porch with columns and full entablature. E front has a shallow 2-storeys bow and a projecting chimney. 2 similar bows at E end of S (garden) front and a wider bow with Portland Stone Ionic order to ground floor, framing 3 French windows. Curved sash windows over have stone double keystones. Good panelled interior to library and drawing room (also Dutch tiles in Arts and Crafts fire surround). Older house may have been built by Rev Stephen Platt c1760 as the rectory mansion and sold by family to Croft in 1889. Bought by County Council c1943. An interesting house of high quality with good interiors by Ernest Newton. Contemporary stable block linked at W.

Listing NGR: TL3789111571