Audley'S Wood

CLIDDESDEN A339 SU64NW 15/40 Audley's Wood

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Country house. Circa 1880 in a NEO-Gothic-cum-Vernacular Revival style. Red brick with band to plain tiled roof. L-shaped with projecting entrance to left, double- depth main block to right and lawn service block function to right. Highly irregular. Entrance front: Step gabled cross-wing to entrance left with two very shallow gabled cross-wings on main block to right of centre, that to right lower than the main ridge. Decorated barge-boards with pendants and tilt hung gables. Many irregular ridge- stacks, mostly diagonal with oversailing cornices. Low and shallow re-entrant projection on right return - front of entrance projection, with barge-board semi-dormer. Oriel of wood, octagonal, with octagonal conical roof and finial also on right return-front of entrance projection. Entrance projects as porte-cochere with 2- centred arches at sides and two smaller arches to front with Y-tracery. 2 storeys and some attics garrets. Irregular finestration of wood-framed casements. 2 storey projection to front of 2 storeys with hipped pyramidal hipped roof. Garden Front: Roof Circa 1900 conservatory with gables containing Mullioned Diocletian windows to garden. 2 bow windows with balustrades above to side. Bow with pedimented porch on end. Extension to left with balustraded bay. Interior: Various unpainted features including panelling and fireplace with C17 Dutch (?) still-life in one room; wooden fire-place with date 1682 in living hall; and parts of fire-place of early C17 in drawing room. Staircase unpainted, 3-flight square-open well with long first flight. Ramped flattish rail, mitred over columnar foot nave + 3 balusters pin tread, with square hinges, columnar flanked by iron- twist. Carved cheek-pieces and corniced tread-ends; decorated string. Stair separated from living hall by 4 pannelled arches. Plastered barrel-vault to living hall with Ministrel's gallery and C17-style stair at far end. Garden Room; Marble columnar arched screen, fire-place at far end of room in bay. conservatory: now lined in fibre-board, hiding exposed steel trusses on marble (?) columns, a structure which appears to be complete but is now largely hidden.

Listing NGR: SU6372148930