Kimberley House Including Service Wings To North West And South East

WYMONDHAM

TG00SE BARNHAM BROOM ROAD 655-1/3/15 Kimberley House including service 29/12/50 wings to NW and SE (Formerly Listed as: BARNHAM BROOM ROAD Kimberley House including the service wings to the NW and SE) (Formerly Listed as: BARNHAM BROOM ROAD Service wings to the NW and SE of Kimberley House)

II*

Country House. 1712 by William Talman, the corner towers added 1754 by Thomas Prowse to Talman's design. Brick with stone dressings. Lead and felt roof. Entrance front to north-east. 3 storeys, with additional storey in corner towers. 9 bays, centre 3 broken forward under pediment. Corner towers are additional single bays which project to north-east and south-west, but are flush to the 5-bay returns. Bays divided by platbands. Central door behind portico on 4 Ionic columns by Fletcher Watson, 1951. Window above with open segmental pediment. Fenestration of sashes with glazing bars and gauged skewback arches. Main pediment with coat of arms. Plain parapet conceals flat roof. Several stacks arranged symmetrically. Corner towers with hipped slate roofs. South-west (garden) facade similar but plainer. Central French window approached by balustrade which returns to form screen extending the width of the house. To north and south of entrance front are quadrangular wings, linked to house by quadrants by Anthony Salvin, 1835. Quadrants of one storey and basement: brick, sloping slate roof to rear, sashes with glazing bars. Quadrangular wings both similar: brick, 2 storeys, slate hipped roofs. 5 bays, central 3 bays broken forward to each side under pediment, except to north return of north wing and south return to south wing (i.e. those facing away from house and entry drive). Fenestration of sashes with glazing bars under gauged skewback arches. North wing with infilled courtyard, south wing restored 1958. INTERIOR of house. Original disposition of 3 rooms of 3 bays to each floor broadly maintained. 2-storey entrance hall and staircase by James Fletcher Watson, 1951. Imperial staircase with turned balusters leads to screen of 2 Corinthian columns and 2 pilasters at first floor. Plastered ceiling. Other details by Watson elsewhere. North-east room by John Sanderson, 1770. Very fine frieze with decoration of paired lions, urns and scrolled foliage. Over one door is a plaster relief panel depicting Moses in the bullrushes. Opposite door with a pair of Corinthian columns supporting a pediment, and, in the frieze, relief scenes of classical figures. A recess to the north-west is flanked by paired Corinthian columns and caryatid figures supporting plastered ceiling. Off recess is an octagonal room by Sanderson (in north tower) with shelving for a china collection and a plaster ceiling. Main staircase of 1754 in south-east tower, with a coffered domed ceiling probably also by Sanderson. Wrought-iron balustrade with waterleaf details. Extensive basements with groined vaults.

Listing NGR: TG0904204748