Throwley House

Throwley House is a house that underwent early 19th century rebuilding of an earlier 18th or 17th century structure. It features painted brick and mathematical tile on a lathe and plaster base for the return and rear walls, topped with a slated roof.

The house has two storeys and a basement, with a hipped roof that has paired modillion eaves and stacks positioned to the left, center, right, and rear. The front facade displays a regular arrangement of five glazing bar sash windows on the first floor and four on the ground floor, all featuring gauged heads. The central entrance has a half-glazed door with a rectangular fanlight above it. The porch is supported by paired Ionic columns and has cast wreaths attached to the cornice, along with incised Greek Keys surrounding the door.

On the left return and rear, there is a continuous verandah with a tent roof supported by slender posts. The ground floor includes glazing bar sash windows with shutters and French windows.

Inside, there is a Doric columned screen with an elliptical arch leading from the doorway to the stair hall. The staircase, added in the late 19th century, features an original octagonal top-lit dome. All rooms have egg and tongue and modillion cornices. The drawing room includes a Corinthian screen with enriched soffits and a Neo-classical tiled fireplace. Internal shutters for the French windows slide into wall cavities, and there is a palmette frieze. The second drawing room features an urn and acanthus frieze, with scrolled and enriched pediments over the doors. Its fireplace is supported by Corinthian paired columns and has an overmantel with paired Ionic columns and a scrolled pediment designed to hold a statue. The dining room is adorned with gilded wallpaper, now overpainted, a guilloched frieze, and Wedgwood-style plaster plaques above the doors. A re-used fireplace from the 16th or 17th century, possibly of colonial origin, features supporters that appear to depict a native King or Queen.