Hornhill House

RICKMANSWORTH OLD SHIRE LANE TQ 09 SW (East side) Horn Hill, Chalfont St.Peter 8/212 Hornhill House 16.7.75 (formerly listed as High Trees iii the civil parish of' Chalfont St Peter) II

Large house. 1883. Red brick with stone and timber dressings. Tiled roof. Neo-Georgian Style. 2 storeys and attic. 5 window front, central 3 bays projecting slightly. Hexastyle Roman Ionic stone portico: segmental cornice with broken pulvinated frieze and architrave to centre, quadrant curves back to coupled outer columns. Fielded panelled door with a rectangular fanlight lugged architrave with key block. First floor 3 tall sashes, architraved flush frames, 8 panes. Moulded band at sill level, gauged brick flat arched heads, louvred shutters. Modillioned timber eaves to triangular pediment with stone cartouche in tympanum. Outer bays have ground floor tall sashes with stone key blocks, recessed aprons with moulded bases. Hipped roof. Right return is garden front: symmetrical 5 bays with full height bows at ends. Ground floor timber verandah to central 3 bays, pseudo-Ionic colonnade, coupled outer columns, bracketed entablature. First floor sashes with louvred shutters. 3 sashes on each floor on bows, ground floor key blocks. Plinth, moulded band at first floor sill level, modillioned eaves cornice. 4 light central dormer with cornice and segmental pediment. 2 ridge stacks between outer bays with moulded oversailing caps. To rear: 2 bays with shuttered sashes and a stack. Left return from front: 3 storeys with segmental headed, stained glass stair window. Set back to left is 2 storey service range, sashes, hipped roofs. Interior not inspected. A pioneering work in the Georgian Style.

Listing NGR: TQ0178192984