Sunnybank is a Grade II listed building in the Three Rivers local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1975. House.

Sunnybank

WRENN ID
narrow-courtyard-shade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Three Rivers
Country
England
Date first listed
16 July 1975
Type
House
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Sunnybank is a house built between 1903 and 1904 by the architect C.F.A. Voysey for Dr. H.R.T. Fort. The building features roughcast brick with stone and tile dressings and has a tile roof, showcasing the Arts and Crafts Style. The front has a double gable with four windows. The entrance is located to the right and is highlighted by a large moulded hood supported by wooden brackets, leading to the original door which includes top lights. The windows are mullion style with stone surrounds and tile dripmoulds, featuring leaded light casements, with two lights to the right and three lights to the left of the entrance, and two and four lights on the first floor.

To the left, there is a recessed original kitchen door set in an arched entrance way, also featuring a tile dripmould that steps up over the arch, with two lights to the left and three lights to the right of the entrance, and two and three lights on the first floor. The house has battered buttresses at both ends and in the center, and a crenellated rainwater head at the central valley. Each attic contains three-light windows without stone mullions, and there are triple ventilation slits in the gables. The central axial ridge is taller and hipped down to cross wings, which have roofs that slope down at both ends. A large cross axial roughcast stack with a curved cap is located behind the left gable, while the right return features a similar stack with one bay of two-light casements.

The garden front mirrors the gables and buttresses of the main front, with original glazed garden doors to the left. The fenestration includes one light and a datestone to the left, and four, four, and one lights to the right, with the first floor displaying four, three, and one lights arranged asymmetrically. There are inserted attic windows and a tall stack to the right of center. An outshut to the right contains a door with strap hinges, and the left return features one bay of two-light casements along with a one-storey outshut with a hipped roof. Another original door leads to a garage, in front of which is a paved yard with a blind arcaded wall to the left. The interior retains original fireplaces, a staircase, strap-hinged doors, ventilation grates, and furnishings. The house was formerly known as Hollybank.

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