Longwood

BISHOPS WALTHAM FREE STREET SU 55 17 9/4 Longwood (Formerly the Rectory.) II

House, built as the Rectory c1805. Walls of brickwork in Flemish bond, rubbed flat arches, some cambered and semi-circular arches, 1st floor band, brick eaves band with large dentils (of coupled bricks). Hipped slate roof, gabled to lower service wings. A square Regency house (with plain service wing) of two storeys, having three different formal elevations. The west (garden) elevation is symmetrical, of five windows, with a central half-circle (Diocletion) light above a cambered arch. Sashes in reveals, reaching to the floor level at the ground floor, the base of the wall marked by a continuous moulded stone step. The south (entrance) elevation has a lower wing recessed to the east side (which has been partly demolished, leaving the front wall), of 4.2. upper windows: sashes in reveals. The doorway is framed by a large semicircular brick arch with stone key and impost blocks, with a radiating fanlight, side windows and door within thin reeded pilasters, and 6 panelled door. The wing is less regular, with a plain arch doorway. The north elevation (of the main block) has a half-hexagonal bay, of three lights, to the eastern half, below a large window with cambered head and triple sash, the west side formed as two full- height recesses below cambered heads; to the east side the lower service wing has two above three sash windows. Inside, most of the original features remain, with staircase, panelled doors in architraves, and shutters.

Listing NGR: SP5571918045