Greylands

Greylands is a mid-19th century house, originally built in the Gothic style and embellished in the late 19th century, with later 20th-century alterations. It was at the time of survey just vacated as a school. The house is stuccoed and has a roof with alternating courses of plain and scalloped tiles, brick chimneystacks, and wooden bargeboards. It is L-shaped, with two storeys and attics, and has five windows. A projecting gable of two bays is on the left-hand side, featuring carved bargeboards, a pendant, and a finial. There is a pointed window in the attic. Other windows are 20th-century casements, with the first floor and attic windows having hood mouldings. A moulded band runs between the ground and first floors. A gabled, projecting porch on the right-hand side has carved bargeboards and a stone sundial dated 1760, featuring an iron cherub’s head and an iron gnomon. There are clustered brick chimneystacks.

One ground floor room contains a late 18th-century marble fireplace with a frieze of swags, a panel depicting cupids riding on a quiver of arrows, end panels of cupids, pilasters with paterae and wheat ear drops, and a cast iron firegrate. The entrance hall features a 19th-century stone fireplace with a 17th-century surround, Delft tiles, and an elaborate 17th-century iron fireback depicting Neptune and sea horses, complete with a brass pothook. The overmantel is late 19th-century but incorporates some panels of 17th-century carving, possibly of Flemish origin. The hall is panelled and contains reused 17th-century panels, some with floral motifs, arched motifs, and two very fine-quality high relief carved panels depicting rustic feasting, probably of Flemish or Dutch origin. Four mahogany doors, each with six fielded panels, are also present. A former staff room has a late 19th-century panelled room in the Jacobean style, with pilasters to the door, strapwork panelled and pilastered overmantel, and a stone four-centred fireplace with spandrels featuring blank shields and sinuous leaf tracery. The former dining room has a late 19th-century elaborate oak overmantel and is panelled throughout. The 19th-century well staircase has oak dado panelling, with three turned balusters to each tread and scrolled tread ends. It also has an octagonal iron cupola with ovolo moulding, fasces decoration, a frieze of ovolo moulding, swag, and urn decoration. An Ionic columned portico is also present. A first floor room has a marble and wooden fireplace with swags.

The building is included for its superb, introduced features. The doors and marble fireplace appear too grand to have been taken from Northwells, with which it is linked at first floor level.