Cadlington House (Cadlington Hall, Murray House, Seymour House)

Cadlington House, also known as Cadlington Hall, Murray House, and Seymour House, is a mansion dating from 1829, with alterations around 1850 and extensions in 1894. In 2008, it was divided into three separate dwellings. The house is constructed of coursed flint with flint galletting, white brick dressings, and a band at plinth level, first-floor bands, blind arches, quoins, eaves fascia, door and window architraves, and rubbed brick flat arches. Bath stone is used for the porch and verandah, and the roofs are slate.

The building is a late Georgian classical house, originally L-shaped with symmetrical principal elevations of two storeys and five window bays. Windows are recessed within reveals with stone cills. Upper floor windows are typically three-over-three pane horned sashes, while ground floor windows include tall, full-height openings with paired doors set beneath very tall overlights. The house has a low-pitched hipped slate roof with wide eaves supported by brackets, and yellow brick chimney stacks flush with the outer walls.

A stone-built verandah of eleven bays wraps around the south, west, and east elevations, featuring simple Greek mouldings, slender rectangular piers, and pilasters forming architraves to the openings, with a blocking course at the top. It has been extended eastward by one bay; the five eastern bays are now in-filled to the outer face with glazing. A prominent group of chimney stacks rises above the south and east elevations. The east stack, aligned with the external wall, is symmetrically stepped with a cornice moulding and solid in appearance. Double stacks on the south elevation, set back from the external wall, are enriched with paired pilaster-like panels and a cornice moulding, linked by a central arch.

On the west (entrance) elevation, the return bays of the verandah project beyond the ground floor. A flat-roofed stone porch, a later addition of around 1850 to the original entrance, continues the style of the verandah, featuring coupled pilaster-like columns, a recessed doorway, and double doors with three tall panels. A single-bay addition above the porch echoes the earlier style of the house but differs from the original design.

A further two-storeyed single-bay addition (around 1850), set back on the west elevation, connects to a rear block at the north side. This block has a symmetrical west elevation of two storeys and five window bays, continuing the original design. The east elevation incorporates the return wall of the verandah (extended and with windows), with lower one- and two-storeyed wings projecting forward, and between them, a single-storeyed billiard room from 1894, featuring a glazed lantern and a large splayed bay window.

The interior of the house has not been inspected.