Penton Close

3347 PENTON MEWSEY CHALKCROFT LANE

8/13 Penton Close

GV II

House, former rectory. c1860. Brick and flint walls, with a tiled roof. An elaborate Tudor/Gothic design with a near-symmetrical front (east) of 2 storeys and attic, 1.1.1 windows, extended northwards with a wing of 1 storey, 1.1. windows. A centrepiece projects forward to form a deep porch, with diagonal buttresses, and the openings at each side are set in slight projections: the centre has a steep gable and the side units ) gables supporting attic windows (with a gable above forminga dormer): the wing is set back, with the let window set within a gabled projection. The gables and cheeks of the dormer are hung with patterned tiles and the fronts have wavy pierced bargeboards. The centre gable (with attic window) has a plain bargeboard above a verge comprising a stepped brick fascia with dentils above and diagonal dentils below; this pattern is repeated at the (lower) eaves moulding to the front, the lower dentils omitted across the projections. The walls are of yellow brickwork, with a rich panelwise decoration of flush squared knapped flintwork, with raised brick crosses on shields within the larger panels; 1st floor weathered moulding, plain plinth: the window openings are chamfered, and there is a hoodmould above the wide Tudor arch of the porch, the feet of the buttresses extend to a short pier with a Gothic stone cap. Casements, with transoms to the ground floor, of 3 lights at the south side and 4 at the north; above the porch is a splayed oriel with transoms tiled roof, and moulded base. Within the porch, which has a traceried window at each side, there are small traceried lights on each side of the plain doorways, .the door being ½- glazed. The wing has the same elevation treatement with a stepped hoodmould and . shields within the gable. The rear elevation has similar detailing, but is a symmetrical, with a wide gable at the south side containing an attic window above a 2 storeyed splayed bay; a recessed centre has an oriel (staircase) window above a blind Tudor arch. The south elevation has an .elaborate stepped chimney stack, with arched recesses, and 5 octagonal flues. The northside lower wings ends in a double gable, the west sideprojection to form an arched porch. at the corner, from which extends a narrow westward service wing; the elevations on this side are plain, of red brickwork in Flemish bond with blue headers, casement windows and arched entrances. The staircase and entrance hall are original.

Listing NGR: SU3304047482