Aspinall Curzon, And Stable Quarters At Rear

This is a town mansion built around 1750-60 as three separate town houses, which were later convincingly combined into one larger mansion around 1905. The building retains a wealth of original interior features. It is constructed of brown brick with yellow brick dressings, topped with a slate roof. The facade is in an elegant Palladian style. The mansion is three stories high, with a basement and dormered mansard roof. It has seven windows across the front, with the central bay, slightly projecting and topped by a pediment, containing a large semicircular arched opening. This frames panelled and studded double doors, flanked by sidelights and rope-moulded pilasters, leading to a fluted doorhead below a patterned fanlight surrounded by blind panels. Glazing bar sash windows are set within a blind ground-floor arcading, with a string course extending to the central doorway. Upper floors feature Venetian windows in the centre, with a segmental pediment above the first-floor window and a plain pediment above the second-floor window. The side wings have glazing bar sash windows recessed under flat, gauged arches. A flat band and sill band run across the front, surmounted by a bracketed cornice and parapet with coping, framing the central pediment. Wrought iron area railings, complete with scroll lamp standards and link extinguishers, front the property.

The interior features a series of fine reception rooms. Those towards the rear have original Rococo plasterwork ceilings, while the fireplaces are made of statuary marble and are either in the Palladian or late 18th century Greek Revival styles, with decorative doorcases and door furniture. The entrance lobby, screen, and staircase are located within a grand staircase compartment in the left-hand side, and are examples of high-quality neo-Georgian detailing, including Venetian cartouche panels on the walls and a compartmented ceiling. A secondary staircase, centrally located on the right-hand side, appears to be original, with a geometric design incorporating a curved handrail, column balusters, a domed skylight, and a swag frieze. A first-floor vestibule off the main staircase features reset mid-18th century French boiseries. The Edwardian refurbishment was carried out to an exceptional standard, performed with great sensitivity. A former coach house, linked to the rear at ground floor level, has a polite, three-bay, pedimented front elevation facing the main house.