Bear Place

Bear Place is a large country house located in a landscaped park, built in the late 18th century and altered in the 20th century. The structure is made of brick, featuring a plain vitreous brick string over the second-floor windows, a flat brick platband at the third-floor level, and a parapet on the hipped slate roof, which has several chimneys. The house has three storeys.

The entrance front includes a rectangular porch that projects to the left of center, featuring a six-panelled double door within a doorcase supported by Roman Ionic columns. This doorcase has an entablature with a pulvinated frieze and a dentil cornice that breaks forward over the columns, topped with a pediment. The entablature continues around the sides of the porch, which is accessed by four moulded stone steps. The rest of this front has irregular sash windows with glazing bars, including a large tripartite sash window on the ground floor to the left of the porch. There is a one-storey extension to the left.

On the south front, the main part of the house features two wide segmental bows, each with three sash windows that have glazing bars, flanking a central bay with a six-panelled door and an arched radiating fanlight. This door is set in a Corinthian doorcase with engaged columns, an entablature, and a pediment, located at the top of a flight of seven stone steps. The steps have a wrought iron handrail with cast iron Greek Doric columns as standards at the foot. The house is situated on a terrace.

Inside, the house features an 18th-century staircase with turned balusters and a moulded handrail, as well as marble fireplace surrounds in the drawing room and dining room. A contract dated 1784 between David Zimenes and Edward Edgerley, the builder, indicates that this house was constructed for £843, with materials sourced from the nearby Elizabethan house on a moated site, which were reused as much as possible.