Benskin'S House

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TQ 19 NW 4/20

STATION ROAD Benskin's House

(Formerly listed as The Clarendon Hotel)

12.9.75

II 1860 by J Livock. Large yellow brick and stucco hotel associated with the station of 1858. Italianate. Three storey. Hipped slate roof with bracketed eaves, tall corniced brick chimneys at the corners and central pair of stacks, corniced and linked by an arch. Five window range to front, 3 windows to side. 1st floor windows in pilastered surrounds with moulded caps, egg-and-dart moulded arches over with shell lunettes. Stucco arches link centre 3 windows of front to form 5 arch feature. Moulded course above from which break forward panelled sills of 2nd floor windows with brackets beneath. Stucco surrounds with panels above and console brackets. Sliding sashes. Stuccoed ground floor front with pilasters and entablature. Central porch with Tuscan columns and outer square piers. Projecting ground floor to side with large 3-light windows with pilasters flanking central slightly projecting doorcase with three-quarter columns. Entablature overall. Garden side doorway dated 1860. To rear stock brick stable with gabled centre and 2 window range each side. Red brick arched centre window head. Pilaster and entablature treatment to right side ground floor. Banded brick between pilasters. The Building News 1860 585.

Listing NGR: TQ1093597348