Claybury Hall (Former Claybury Hospital)

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TQ 4291 10/6

REGENTS DRIVE Claybury Hall (Former Claybury Hospital)

(Formerly listed as Claybury Hall (Claybury Hospital), MANOR ROAD, Woodford Bridge

II Designed probably by Jesse Gibson for James Hatch. Late C18, possibly 1785, the date on a fire bell. Two storeys, gault brick, stone cornice, blocking course and other details. Bank between storeys. Sash windows, plain reveals. Entrance front: six bays, four columned Doric porch, round headed doorway with fanlight. Wing of similar general style and date, with later extensions behind. Garden, or principal front: 2+2+2 bays; the centre a two storey bow with columns and dentilled cornice to ground floor, two steps up. Other ground floor windows with fan-fluted heads and cornices. Parapet has a small pediment to each end of front, and balustrade to centre. Side elevation in similar general style, central windows with enrichment. A fire escape stair of iron has been built on this side.

INTERIOR of the house has some good decoration of the period including galleried staircase of stone with delicate wrought iron balustrade; classical reliefs on walls. Saloon, in centre of garden front with enriched ceiling, bowed window, classical trompe-l'oeil paintings in grisaille on canvas as overdoors etc. C19 fireplace. Good door. Former dining room to west has ceiling cornice and sideboard recess with freestanding full-height painted scagliola columns with Ionic caps. C19 fireplace. Room at east end, probably library and music room, with cornices and original white marble fireplaces, one with profile portraits of Homer and (?) Virgil, and a central plaque bearing relief of a reclining Venus. Some upstairs rooms have original wood mantelpieces with composition ornament. The original entrance to the house was through the southern bow, but on the advice of Humphry Repton it was changed to the north front about 1791.

Listing NGR: TQ4290791328