Oldfield

1. 5130 GUARDS CLUB ROAD (east side) SU 98 SW Old field 2/35

II GV

1. Late C19 - early C20. Former Guards Club. Large irregular idiosyncratic building, 2 storeys and attic, plain tile roofs with gables, hips, half hips and octagonal turret. Entrance front:- entrance to LH under timber framed and brick gabled porch. Gable to LH with carved, pierced cuspen bargeboard and alternating timber and plaster panels. First floor decorative tile hanging, ground floor brick with sandstone dressings to casement windows. Central portion, 2 storey red brick with stone panel and dressings, first floor stone mullioned and transomed window with 2 semi-circular headed lights, carved decoration in spandrels and ornamental leaded glazing. Ground floor stone panel with emi-circular window under drip mould flanked by carved decorative escutcheons. To RH half hipped gable with decorative bargeboard alternating timber and plaster panels, decorative tile hanging, red brick and stone dressings. River front, octagonal turret with belvedere to RH 1st floor mock Tudor alternating timber and plaster panels. Ground floor red brick with slender timber verandah. Lead roofed circular oriel turret on corner. Variety of gables with carved, cusped and pierced bargeboards. At river front, a boathouse contemporary with Oldfield, timber framed, gables and pitched roof of corrugated iron. Partly supported on yellow stock brick wall extending from Lodge. Interior has large stairs hall with imposing staircase with carved balusters. Pevsner p 175.

Listing NGR: SU9006881201