Swiftsden House

Swiftsden House is a small country house set in a landscaped garden, built in 1892 by Reginald Blomfield, who later became Sir Reginald. It is designed in a neo-William and Mary style, featuring red brick on a tall chamfered plinth made of dressed stone. The house has rusticated stone quoins and gauged brick dressings, with a flat panelled wooden eaves soffit beneath a plain tiled bell-cast roof.

On the south front, there are three hipped dormers and two tall stacks positioned behind the ridge. The building has two storeys and an attic, with a regular five-window front featuring glazing bar sashes in open boxes, which have red brick gauged heads. The first-floor windows are slightly shallower than those on the ground floor. There is a central blind panel on the ground floor with a gauged head, and to the left, a shallow, very narrow recessed wing has one very narrow window on the ground floor.

The entrance front is irregular in shape, forming an L-plan with a slightly recessed entrance under a pebble-dashed arch on projections to the left. A shell-hood on volute-brackets sits over a half-glazed door, which has side-wings and narrow flanking windows, all featuring chamfered panes.

Inside, there is a staircase with three flights, an open-well design, turned bulbous balusters, and a ramped handrail, which is likely reused. One room contains a reused 18th-century fireplace with herm pilasters. The gable and bell-coted stable wing that used to stand to the east of the house and was connected has been demolished.