East Shefford House

In the entry for:- SU 37SE GREAT SHEFFORD EAST SHEFFORD

10/6 East Shefford House

II

The entry shall be amended to read:- GREAT SHEFFORD SU37SE EAST SHEFFORD 15-0/10/6 East Shefford House

11/07/83

II House. C17-18, extended in circa 1850-60. Rendered timber-frame with gable-ended tile roofs at rear and rendered brick with hipped slate roof at front with deep bracketed eaves cornice. Rendered brick stacks, the front with bracketed cornices. PLAN: 2-room plan front range with large central stairhall, added to front of earlier, C17-18 timber-framed rear ranges. Italianate style front range. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 2:1:2 bay south west front. 4-pane sashes, the ground floor with pilastered architraves, bracketed cills and cornices on consoles with moulded stringcourse at this level; smaller first floor windows, the centre tripartite, in moulded architraves with bracketed cills. Central doorway with moulded elliptical arch, fanlight and double-doors with round-headed panes; large porch with pilasters, entablature and elliptical arch. Similar windows in end walls, the right [SE] end has canted bay. The gabled ranges at the rear have various sash and casement windows and at the back a single-storey outshut. INTERIOR: The front range has elaborately moulded plaster ceiling conices and roses and most of the original joinery survive, including panelled doors and a large open-well, open-string staircase with shaped tread-ends, moulded balusters and newels with pendants and a moulded and wreathed mahogany handrail. Ranges at rear have exposed ceiling beams and joists and ground and first floor rooms with some earlier linenfold panelling, said to have come from Hug Ditch Court. The roofs of the back ranges have principals with cambered collars and tenoned butt purlins; some of the timbers appear to be re-used material.

SU 37SE GREAT SHEFFORD EAST SHEFFORD

10/6 East Shefford House

II

Large House. Part C17 and 18 but mainly early C19. Hipped slate roof with eaves cornice. Stucco on brick walls. Rectangular C19 block at front with irregular earlier wing at right angles to rear. 2 storey. 5 bays of vertical sliding sash windows with raised architraves and moulded cornices on ground floor. Large central portico with 3 light sash above.

Listing NGR: SU3900874761