Chartersfield Hall (Shown On Os Maps As Wyfold Cottage)

In the entry for:-

SU68SE CHECKENDON -

5/10010 Chatersfield Hall

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the entry shall be amended to read:-

SU68SE CHECKENDON Approx 500m SW of former Borocourt Hospital

5/10010 Chatersfield Hall (Shown on OS maps as Wyfold Cottage)

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SU68SE CHECKENDON -

5/10010 Chatersfield Hall

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Probably estate bailiffs house. Probably 1872-8 by George Somers Clarke, the elder, for Edward Hermon, a cotton manufacturer. English-bond red brick with blue brick diapering, stone dressings and some timber-framing. Plain tile roof with stone coping to gable ends and crested ridge-tiles. Brick lateral and axial stacks with tall shafts with corbelled brick caps and strings. An asymmetrical composition in a robust Tudor-Gothic style. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical elevations. Entrance front has large projecting lateral stack on right with brick diaperwork, small fire-windows, set-offs, the upper one with stone weathering incorporating a gablet containing an armorial device; lean-to porch in angle on left with wooden arcaded front on low wall. The left return has two staggered gables, the left projects, the right with open bracing, timber-framed and jettied and with what looks like an oven projection below. The right hand return also has braced and timber-framed gable jettied out over stone bay window on ground floor; on right the ground floor projects with lean-to roof. Small single-storey service wing at rear. Interior not recorded but room to right of main entrance has wide fireplace with low moulded segmental arch and two fire-windows.

Listing NGR: SU6822481926