Waterperry House And Attached Wall

Waterperry House is a mansion, now a college, built around 1713 for Sir John Curson. It incorporates a late 17th-century wing and was altered around 1820 for the Henley family. The house is constructed of stucco with limestone ashlar dressings, brick, and squared coursed limestone rubble, with Welsh-slate and old plain-tile roofs. It has a double-depth plan and a U-shaped rear wing.

The main block has three storeys and a balustraded parapet with a heavy cornice and projecting quoins. The seven-window front has a central bay that breaks forward slightly, featuring a large Ionic-mullioned Venetian window at first floor. This sits above an Ionic tetrastyle balustraded portico, which in turn shelters a double-leaf six-panel door flanked by narrow lights set in chamfered rustication. The return walls also have two central bays breaking forward, notably on the left. The rear wall includes a three-storey bowed section of English-bond brickwork. The service range to the rear incorporates an earlier rubble house and includes a wing to the right with a central six-panel door. Short projecting wings are present at each end of this range, the left wing having been further extended and incorporating a 14th-century stone arched doorway with two chamfered orders. At first floor, the front and wings feature leaded wood-framed cross windows, while the rear has rows of similar windows on both floors. A stucco oval set between four fleurs-de-lys on the left wing contains the date 1705. The hipped roof has a ridge stack to the right of centre and a stack on the flush rear gable of the left wing. A rear hopper head is dated 1799.

Inside, the main block has a columned hall leading to a stair hall with a late 18th/early 19th-century open-well staircase featuring a ramped and wreathed handrail. An arched window in the stair hall contains mostly-continental painted glass from the 16th and 17th centuries. A back staircase has late 17th-century twisted balusters and a ramped handrail, likely rearranged in the 18th century. An early 18th-century panelled room contains a blocked arched doorway flanked by fluted pilasters supporting an entablature with a dentil cornice. The 17th-century wing has a large internal stack and a butt-purlin roof. A brick and rubble wall runs from the rear wing to the Church of St. Mary.