Testcombe

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SU 33 NE 7/8

CHILBOLTON Coley Lane Testcombe

(Formerly listed as Testcombe, CHILBOLTON)

II House. 1893. Arts and Crafts building of Early Tudor style. Brick, half-timber, stone slates. Two storeys. The west front (facing the River Test) is a long range, with the roof line broken by a central stack, with elaborate base and plain diagonal flues: Two gablets (above upper windows) and two gabled projections. The upper walling is a bricknogged timber frame, the lower having some areas of flint (some of brick) with brick quoins and plinth. The projections have upper railed galleries, one having a ground floor of windows with a central (half-hexagon) French door, the other being plainer and set. back behind wood corner posts. Two shallow brick projections have tiled roofs, one containing a window the other a French door. The north side is a complex of gabled projections of different widths and varied heights, two tile-hung another rendered. The south end has a tall tower at the east side, its upper part being an exposed frame with roughcast infill. The north end is of two parts, one being the gable end of the long west front with an upper railed gallery, separated from the east side which has a tiled roof at right-angles and a large semi-circular bay. The main entrance next to the south east tower has a Jacobean decorative arch, with short side pilasters.

Listing NGR: SU3830239126