Binfield House

Binfield House is a large house dating from the late 18th century, with alterations and extensions made in the 19th century and again in the late 20th century. It is now used as a home for the elderly. The house is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with tiled roofs of varying heights. The plan is rectangular, with extensions to the rear.

The two-storey main block has attic windows, several brick chimneys, some with clay pots, and sash windows with glazing bars, those on the south-west front featuring Gothic glazing bars. The south-west front has windows with gauged brick arches; those on the first floor are ogee headed, each with a keystone. The facade is divided into four sections. The left-hand section, projecting slightly, has three bays. The third bay has a Venetian-style window on the first floor, with an ogee arch at its centre and round arches on either side. Below this window is an entrance door consisting of six fielded panels within a panelled surround, a corniced head, and a patterned, rectangular overlight. A prostyle porch with compound columns and a dentil cornice, and a panelled soffit, features above the door. The taller central section has two bays and a doubled ogee attic window. The recessed section to the right has three bays and a pair of glazed doors under a square hoodmould, replacing a previous window in the central bay. The right-hand section is a large, half-octagonal canted bay with glazed doors under a square hoodmould, again replacing a window.

The interior includes an entrance hall with a dentilled ceiling cornice ornamented with acanthus leaves. The dining room contains an Adam-style fireplace with swags, egg and floral motifs within the surround to a marble insert, an elaborate cornice with floral decoration and paterae, console brackets incorporating floral and dart ornament, and an elaborate doorcase with a moulded architrave featuring bead and reel anthelion leaf ornament. Ionic pilasters lead from the hall lobby into the dining room. The room also has moulded skirting and dado rails with floral decoration. A geometrical staircase has stone treads and a closed string. The wreathed handrail features wrought-iron balusters in a lyre pattern. A semicircular dentilled cornice sits above the staircase.