Tarrystone House, Including Iron Gates And Gate Piers And Adjoining Wall

SU 8985 COOKHAM SUTTON ROAD (east side)

14/11 Tarrystone House, including iron gates and gate piers and adjoining 25.3.55 wall (Formerly listed as Tarry Stone House, including iron gate and gate piers)

G.V. II*

Large town house, now flatlets. Early C18, extended and altered C19 and C20. Red brick with vitreous headers, slate roof gabled on left hand section. Rectangular plan with C19 extension in same style on right hand. 2 storeys and cellar. 2 end ridge chimneys, one tall chimney on extension. Moulded brick string at first-floor level, moulded brick cornice over first-floor windows to later parapet with frieze and architrave. Frieze cut by dies between windows. Symmetrical 5-bay front in left hand section. Sash windows, with glazing bars and gauged arches. C20 panelled central entrance door in moulded door frame and fanlight with lancet shaped panes. Gauged brick pilasters on each side of door with moulded bases and caps and similar above either side of central window. Moulded brick segemental pediment with brick console brackets below, over door. Single wrought-iron gate, with overthrow between brick piers with stone caps. Side railings missing. 3-bay extension set back on right hand. Brick wall adjoining on left early C19 about 4 metres high, 6 bays with round coping. Curves at end to abut Lullebrook Cottage. Interior: in entrance hall, C18 panelling, semicircular projecting, moulded door case on left. Fireplace on right hand, with moulded overmantel, egg and dart and foliage enrichment on surround: marble inset. Good full-height staircase of 5 flights with barley sugar balusters on vases, moulded handrail, newels with square moulded tops on fluted columns on square bases. Room No. 1: elaborate scrolled fireplace, egg and dart, and leaf ornament. Room No. 2: fireplace with fluted, engaged flanking columns, marble inset. Open pediment over with similar columns and leaf ornament.

B.O.E. (Berkshire) p,123.

Listing NGR: SU8975285369