Langley End House, Bathgate House And Clifton House And Attached Garden Wall At North East

A country house, now divided into three properties, with an attached garden wall at the northeast, dating to circa 1911 and designed by E.L. Lutyens for Mrs. Fenwick, originally named Hillend. The house is constructed of dark red brick in English bond, with lighter red brick dressings, moulded stonework details, and a coved plaster eaves cornice. It has steep, handmade red tile roofs with swept valleys. The architectural style is a revival of Georgian design, taking the form of a two-storey, H-shaped house facing west, with a wedge-shaped two-storey service wing (now Clifton House) adjoining on the north, facing a lane. The roof slopes down to a single-story level at the entrance, recessed in the centre, with a moulded stone eaves gutter on the west side between the two wings. The central double doors are flanked by four-light casement windows with small panes; three hipped dormer windows are in the roof slope, featuring leaded glazing and oak frames. A large, rectangular central chimney is present. The flanking two-storey blocks have deep coved eaves, sash windows with a 16/12-pane configuration, and a plat-band returning around the left-hand wing, which terminates in a circular brick “dot”. A York stone terrace with hemicyclic niches in brick piers, having stone coping, is situated in front of the entrance, at each end, mirroring the gate piers at Temple Dinsley. The seven-bay, two-storey garden front on the east features French doors on the ground floor and casement windows on the first floor. The central three bays are recessed and flanked by tall square piers, capped with stone and surmounted by lead urns, connected by a panelled parapet. The north face of the service wing has three casement windows to the first floor interrupting the eaves band, a central recessed panel door, two rectangular leaded larder windows, and a projecting, beaked moulding of the garden wall coping continues across the ground floor of the building. The wall is taller to the east, alongside the lane, featuring a heavy panelled door within a recessed round-arched gateway. This gateway has splayed external jambs, a segmental outer arch, and tile courses as spandrels.