The Phillippines

House, later care home. The Phillippines began with a northern section built in 1834 in Italianate style. A ballroom was added by 1869, followed by a conservatory to the north east before 1896. The building was extended southwards in matching style around 1900, with principal rooms refurbished through works carried out between 1902 and 1908 by the notable architect and designer George Walton. Later twentieth-century alterations and extensions followed its conversion to a care home.

The north wing is stuccoed with a mansard slate roof, rising two storeys over a semi-basement with attics. It contains seven windows including end curved bays with three windows each. The central bay features a four-light attic window with cornice and end urns; the first floor has a four-light French window with cast iron balustrading; and the ground floor displays a horseshoe-arched doorcase with fanlight containing stained glass inscribed "The Phillippines 1878" on the inside. The doorcase has panelled pilasters with paterae and a half-glazed door with marginal glazing. The end pilasters no longer support a cornice. A curved flight of steps with stone balustrading and iron handrail terminates in circular columns topped with gadrooned urns. The end bays contain pedimented attic windows with concealed balustrading and urns, one now missing on the left side. A cornice with acanthus leaf brackets and paterae runs across. Ground floor and semi-basement sections are rusticated. Late nineteenth-century sashes with horns but no glazing bars replace earlier windows in the central bay windows (replaced by sheet glass in the later twentieth century), all within original openings. The former ballroom, attached to the north east, is a single tall storey, stuccoed with a balustraded parapet bearing urns. Below the moulded cornice are three panels with ovals contained by eared architraves, with rustication below these windows, now twentieth-century replacements. At the extreme north east stands the former conservatory, added before 1896. This single-storey structure is stuccoed with seven pilasters and a barrel-vaulted glazed roof, fitted with twentieth-century casement windows in the original openings.

The south wing is cement-rendered with incised lines imitating masonry. It rises two to three storeys with three windows. The left side bay is two storeys with a hipped slate roof; the remainder is three storeys, crowned with a balustraded parapet bearing two urn finials at centre and a large octagonal bellcote. Triple casement windows light the elevation. The ground floor is rusticated with splayed bay end windows containing French windows. The central porch comprises four Ionic columns and a half-glazed door flanked by side-lights, with pierced balustrading above the ground floor. One-storey late twentieth-century extensions extend to the south east and west.

The interior was remodelled in the first decade of the twentieth century. The staircase hall features six imitation marble Composite columns, a fireplace of limed oak with eared architraves and a swag panel beneath a curved overmantel depicting palms and a blank shield, and a large limed oak well staircase with turned balusters, panelled base and panelled square newel posts. Many six-panelled doors survive throughout. A glazed dome above the staircase contains twelve coloured glass side windows. In 1908 George Walton painted a mural in oils on two walls above the staircase depicting the story of Diana and Actaeon, signed and dated. The larger wall shows the goddess and her nymphs surprised in her grove; the smaller wall depicts Actaeon in the act of being transformed into a stag.

The Dining Room features fine Edwardian eighteenth-century style panelling incorporating a fireplace with eared architrave and ovolo moulding, a panel bearing a female head, two built-in serpentine shelved china cupboards and a plastered ceiling with three panels. The room opposite has a panelled ceiling and wall panels. The Drawing Room was redecorated by George Walton between 1902 and 1905, with a stencilled frieze depicting bluebells and cornflowers and wooden panelling etched with gilding, including a cornice shelf, pilasters with dentil motif, plinth and a curved overmantel to the fireplace incorporating ornament shelves. A steel and brass fireplace with ogival-shaped hood features built-in firedogs and side decoration in incised and coloured plaster of doves and peacock feathers. Square pillars with swags support the bow window.