Cranbourne Court

WINKFIELD

SU97SW CRANBOURNE 674-1/13/225 Cranbourne Court 20/12/72

II

Large country house in landscaped surrounds. C18 altered and extended late C19. Date of 1876 on rainwater head at front of house, probably refers to late C19 parallel range at rear. MATERIALS: painted brick in Flemish bond, low pitched slate roof behind parapet in front, high pitched slate hipped roof at rear. PLAN: double depth plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Several chimneys with stone cornices and Doulton pots of cutwork design. Sash windows, those at rear with glazing bars. Entrance front, north-west, has plinth, frieze, moulded cornice and blocking course to ground floor, heavy moulded cornice, and plain parapet with moulded coping string at ground floor and first floor sill levels. 7-bay windows in moulded architraves with bracketed sills. 3-bays to left, slight set back. Small 2-bay extension to right. C20 prostyle porch to left of centre has fluted and reeded columns without capitals but with entablature with egg-and-dart cornice. INTERIOR: guests sitting room carved wooden chimneypiece with floral decoration and roses in corner panels of frieze. Dining room: carved wooden chimneypiece with engaged fluted columns, reeded frieze with projecting centre panel having floral decorations. Moulded cornice enriched with ball flower ornament. Study has marble chimneypiece with engaged Ionic fluted columns, frieze with paterae and floral centrepiece; urns in corner panels. Moulded cornice enriched with egg-and-dart ornament, breaking forward at ends of frieze. Games room has carved wooden chimneypiece, with paterae and flutes in frieze, moulded cornice with egg-and-dart enrichment.