Aldeby House

ALDEBY THE WALKS TM 49 SE 9/9 Aldeby House (formerly listed 25-9-51 as Aldeby House Farmhouse)

• II

House, late C17 with later minor extensions. Red brick with steeply pitched plain tiled roofs, hipped over later wing to west. Two storeys and attics, T-shaped plan. North range forming head of 'T' has shaped gables; cross casements with leaded glazing, one ground floor window ovolo-moulded. Large external stack off-centre on north wall with weathered offsets. Rebuilt internal stack on west gable. Sawtooth and modillion brick eaves. West gable has window openings with segmental moulded brick pediments, all openings blocked except one at first floor and one at attic level. East gable has ground floor openings altered: one 2-light casement with semicircular head, one large square headed window with transom and pivoted upper lights; one first floor cross casement with leaded glazing, all other openings blocked. Gabled single storey outshut with pantiled roof at north-east corner. South range altered and extended: ground floor windows of 3 lights, two with restored rendered and chamfered mullions, some C20 casements with leaded glazing. Two-light first floor casements with leaded glazing: one cross casement. Stepped south gable with catslide extension to west side; large C20 4-light ground floor window with transom with 2-light floor and attic casements above. Off-centre entrance door with plain pilastered doorcase with lead covered canopy and rectangular 2-light fanlight above. First floor cross casement in south end of lean-to. Catslide to west with 2 and 4-light leaded casements. Two storey hipped projection with C20 casements in west wall, the ground floor window of 3 lights with transom and glazing bars.

Listing NGR: TM4526894302