Chilterns And Attached Outbuilding And Railings

This is a house with an attached outbuilding and railings, likely dating from the late 17th or early 18th century, with extensions and alterations in the mid-18th century. The house is constructed of rendered walls and flared brick with red-brick dressings, and has an old plain-tile roof with brick stacks. It was originally a 3-unit cross-passage plan, later expanded to an L-shape. The earlier rendered section has a 2-window front with a central 6-panel door set between 12-pane sashes, and 9-pane sashes on the first floor. One ground-floor sash retains early wide glazing bars. A projecting brick wing, bonded in a header pattern, has a rendered storey band and brick dentil eaves course, and a 3-window front, including a 6-panel door sheltered by a flat, moulded canopy with shaped brackets. The ground-floor sashes are arched, and one is a blind window. The front gable wall features two tripartite sashes with gauged brick flat arches that break into triangular arches above the central sashes, and a circular opening in the gable itself. The rear of the original section features casements and lower eaves with three gabled dormers. Internally, the earlier section retains parts of the cross passage and a winder stair beside a chimney stack. The brick wing contains a dogleg stair with turned balusters, and a carved 18th-century architrave fireplace flanked by arched display alcoves. A low outbuilding range, now a garage, projects from the right side of the main house. A low brick wall, with 19th-century cast-iron railings set between square piers, completes the enclosure of the forecourt.