Wolverton House

Wolverton House is an early 18th century and early 19th century classical house of symmetrical design. It is two storeys high and has a cellar, though the lower service area at the south side appears as three storeys. The original central block has later wings. The west front, originally the entrance front, has seven windows, and the wings have 1.1 windows each. It has a hipped slate roof concealed by a balustraded parapet. The brick construction is faced with thin slabs of Bath stone, giving the appearance of seamless joints. The house features a cornice, cills and plinth, and a two-storey blind arch on the inner face of each wing. Windows are sash windows in reveals. A Portland stone porch with Ionic columns and pilasters, an arched doorway with a decorative fanlight, and double doors stands at the centre. Curved flanking walls project forward, each with a niche, pedestal, and lead urn atop a pillar. The east front, now the entrance, has five windows, and the wings form a U-shape. A plainer porch leads to a six-panelled door with an arched fanlight. The north elevation of the wing has five bays, mostly blank, except for the three central French windows with arched heads linked by a thin impost band. The lower service yard includes a single-storey forward extension (at cellar level) and an entrance on the west side leading to a passageway covered by quadripartite brick vaulting.