The Flint House

GREAT AMWELL HILLSIDE LANE (OFF) TL 3712 (north side) Great Amwell village 12/22 The Flint House

24.1.67

GV II

House. 1842-4 by William Chadwell Mylne (1781-1863) for himself (plaque in porch). Uncoursed unknapped flints with yellow brick dressings. Hipped slate roof with wide overhanging eaves. Grouped central chimneys plastered below brick capping. Stucco 1-storey enclosed porch central on E front. A large 2-storeys attics and basement house with 3-window entrance front on E and longer 5-window garden front on W. Low brick plinth, brick band at floor and eaves levels. End bays slightly advanced on each front. Brick quoins and gauged flat arches. Porch has panelled pilasters, moulded imposts and 3-centred opening, moulded cornice with blocking course and fluted urns at front corners. Round headed window in each side. Recessed sash windows with 6/6 panes (8/8 over porch). Flat topped casemented dormer on E and 2 similar on W. Service rooms in basement approached by sunken way from W and tunnel under lawn on N side. Similar tunnel may have extended to E. Interior largely unchanged but some work by Robert Mylne c1890. In breakfast room 2 half-height relief figures, of naval officer with Sextant and seaman with rope (said to be from a naval church in Farnham c1759) flanking fireplace with C18 carved wooden terms and De Morgan tiles. Inset in frieze 2 plaster reliefs by S Henning after T Stothard (Canterbury Pilgrims) and A Henning (Cavalcade preceding the Tournament) of 1827. Upper'stair hall surrounded by casts of Parthenon frieze. Said to have been built by W C Mylne to take the place of his father's house (Amwell Grove) the situation of which near the river he regarded as unhealthy (Colvin (1978) 578). Plaque in porch records he laid out and himself planted the garden. (Pevsner (1977) 150).

Listing NGR: TL3710712336