Warfield House

WARFIELD

SU87SE HAYLEY GREEN ROAD, Brock Hill 674-1/12/190 (West side) 20/12/72 Warfield House

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Large country house in landscaped surrounds. Early C18 extended C19, altered mid C20. MATERIALS: mostly red brick in Flemish bond, part painted brick. Low pitched, hipped old tile roofs hidden behind parapets. PLAN: Formerly nearly square plan, now irregular with canted bays on north, east and south. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Several chimneys with corniced heads and clay pots. Parapet. Sash windows with glazing bars. Irregular entrance front to north. Early C19 rounded 3-window projection on right, covering 3-bays of original house. 2 storey, single window projecting frontispiece with paired, tapered pilasters, at either end supporting moulded stone cornices. Those on first floor rise above cornice, broken forward to contain them, to brick parapet with stone urn finials. First floor window moulded frame and moulded architrave. Entrance door of 8 fielded panels in Doric doorcase with triglyph frieze and projecting cornice with mutules, broken back in centre. On left return (east front) 2 projecting 3-window, early C19 wings in painted brick with canted ends, with 3-bays of original house visible between them. Windows on second floor of older part have moulded frames and gauged brick arches. On first floor beneath platband Venetian window and balcony with balustrade. C20 French casement doors below this. INTERIOR: some panelling and enriched doors. Window shutters complete on ground floor.