Shenley Hall

Shenley Hall is a country house, now used as offices, built in 1906 by F.T. Baggallay for Mr. Hore, with additions made in 1914 by Sir Edwin Lutyens for S. de la Rue, and further extensions in the late 20th century. The building is constructed of stuccoed brick and features a machine-tiled roof in the Wrennaissance style. It has two storeys and a seven-bay front arranged in a 2:3:2 pattern. The central three bays are topped with a broken mutuled pediment that includes a cartouche and swags. The entrance is located in a porch with an attached Greek Ionic doorcase, a foliate frieze, and a pediment that is broken at both the base and apex. The windows are glazing bar sashes with architraves, and the ground floor and first floor center windows are keyed. The flanking bays step back with quoins at the angles, and the windows have deep reveals. A mutuled eaves cornice runs along the top, and the roof is a double span hipped design. There are roughcast capped stacks flanking the central three bays and on the left hip. To the right, there is a two-bay addition by Lutyens that is set back. The right return features two ground floor windows with quoined surrounds and three medallions with festoons flanking slit windows on the first floor. A plat band returns along this side. At the rear, the layout is also 2:3:2, with a large ground floor bow in the center and an entrance to the right under a semi-circular hood. The parapet is ramped up to short piers between the bays, and there is a hexagonal ridge turret with a bellcote topped by an ogee dome and weathervane. Attached to the front left are rambling two-storey extensions, also with glazing bar sashes and a cornice below a coped parapet. Inside, there are stairs, panelling, plasterwork, and chimneypieces in 17th and 18th century styles. The billiard room, designed by Lutyens, features Ionic columns and marble chimney pieces. Additionally, there is a low red brick wall by Lutyens attached to the right end of the front wall, which includes a round-headed entrance, pilasters, and pantile coping.