Saltcote Place

TQ 92 SW PLAYDEN

16/77 Saltcote Place

21.2.86 II

Country house. Circa 1905 by Sir Reginald Blomfield in a Neo-Caroline style. Red brick with plastered dressings and slate and tiled roofs. Z-plan, with service wing in arm to rear and tower at junction. Entrance front: 2 storeys with attic. Roof with several courses of slates on lowest slopes, balustrade and cupola. Irregular brick stacks and 5 hipped dormers. Irregular fenestration of glazing bar sashes with a Venetian stair window to left of centre at betwixt floor level. Doubled half-glazed doors with transom light over and projecting columned porch with large segmental open pediment over, to right of centre. L-plan service wing projecting to left with cornice, ramped parapets, globe finials at corners and large square stack on one corner in angle between main and service blocks. Garden front: 2 storeys with attics. Central 3 bay pedimented projection with keyed thermal window and swags below in tympanum, symmetrical pair of ridge brick stacks, 2 hipped dormers, roof balustrade and cupola, both visible from entrance front. Regular 5 window front, glazing bar sashes, with most in centre on first and ground floors, and in outer bays on ground floor tripartite, the outer ground floor pain incorporating central French casements. Full width single-storey veranda of 5 bays with Doric columns and balustrade over. Side elevations to this front both have two storey flat-headed rounded bays with stone and brick chequer between floors. Interior: various neo-Adam fireplaces.

Listing NGR: TQ9238121347