Grateley House

SU 24 SE GRATELEY GRATELEY

5/22 Grateley House

II

Large house, with extensive service blocks abutting the roadway. c1840 and late C19. Brick and slate. Symmetrical front (south) of 2 storeys, 3 windows. Low- pitched hipped roof. Red brick walls in Flemish bond, rubbed flat arches, stone 1st floor band (now broken by lowered cills). Sashes in reveals, the ground-floor has. splayed brick bays, each with 3 sash windows. Plain arched doorway with fan- light and ½-glazed door. The feature of the elevation is a stone-flagged verandah with thin cast-iron columns, oval arches (to fit the different spans as the eaves passes across the front, round the bays, and on the west side of the building), trellis spandrels and side panels, and concave leaded roof. The east elevation is of the same style, symmetrical of 2 storeys, 3 windows (south side blank), with ground-floor recessed openings (the north side replaced with a shallow brick 3 light rectangular bay). Ionic porch of 2 plain columns, 2 pilasters, fanlight and late C19 door of 2 vertical panels. Extending to the north of the east elevation is the east end of the north service block, with flint and brick walls. The roadside (north) elevation is mainly late C19, of mixed sections (flint and brick, brick with diaper patterns),2 storeys, 1 storey and attic, with a carriage arch now filled.

Listing NGR: SU2772141828