Yeomanry House And Attached Front Area Railings

Yeomanry House and Attached Front Area Railings

A house, now a Territorial Army centre, dating from around 1725 with 20th-century alterations and extensions. The building is constructed of grey brick in Flemish bond with red dressings. Old tiled roofs are concealed behind a tall parapet with flat stone coping.

The plan is of central entrance type, one room deep, with three rooms on each floor: one to the west and two smaller rooms to the east, plus a 19th-century outshut.

The exterior presents a five-bay facade of two storeys with an attic above, designed in Baroque style. Giant Roman Ionic pilasters flank the elevation, constructed of grey brick with red quoins, plinth and base featuring torus moulding. The pilasters have carved stone capitals and are surmounted by an entablature with red brick fascia, brick dentils and moulded bands. The pilasters continue as plain responds across the attic storey.

The first floor contains five windows: three flush-set 12-pane sashes with architrave surrounds (two to the left and one in the centre), and two recessed 12-pane sashes in the right-hand (east) bays. All are set beneath segmental rubbed red brick arches with red brick reveals. The attic storey has five similar but slightly shorter windows with raised triple keystones in rubbed brickwork projecting above the arches.

The ground floor has four flush-set windows: two at left without intermediate horizontal glazing bars, and two at right with 12-pane glazing, all beneath segmental rubbed brick arches with raised triple keystones. A central doorway features a stone threshold and two stone steps leading to an 8-fielded panelled door in an architrave frame. The door surround is of brick with Roman Ionic pilasters having stone plinths, and an entablature above with dentils, cornice and segmental pediment. Above this, the central first-floor window is framed by an aedicule with Roman Ionic pilasters of smaller scale, entablature and segmental pediment with dentils; the cornice of this feature breaks through the dentil course of the main building cornice. The left and right flank elevations are blank.

Large 20th-century extensions at the rear are of no special architectural interest.

The interior retains a simple panelled hall with dado, an arch with fluted pilasters, moulded fascia and keyblock. Six-panel doors are present throughout. Rooms on the ground and first floors retain panelling and heavy moulded wood cornices, though fireplaces have been altered. An open-well dogleg stair features column newels, an iron twist column on bobbin balusters, open string with carved bracketed treads and bold moulded ramped handrails. The dado is panelled with ramped rail, and the walls to the first-floor landing are panelled. The attic storey rooms have been largely remodelled, and the roof structure was not inspected.

A significant subsidiary feature is the fine 18th-century wrought-iron railings around the front basement area.