Pudlicote House

Pudlicote House is a small country house dating from circa 1808, built for the Gorge family. It is constructed of limestone ashlar with coursed limestone rubble and ashlar dressings, and has slate roofs. The house is arranged as an L-plan, with a service wing projecting to the north-east to form one side of an entrance courtyard.

The south-west front, overlooking the garden, has a plinth, a first-floor cill band, a chamfered stone band supporting projecting eaves, and wrought-iron brackets to the guttering. The roof features ashlar ridge stacks with set backs (three to the front and two to the rear). The façade is arranged with a 1:3:1:3:1 bay arrangement, featuring glazing bar sashes with flush stone lintels. Full-height, flat-roofed, three-bay bows flank the central entrance. The central entrance features small-paned glazed doors with a cast-iron radial fanlight, set in a shallow round-arched recess with an impost band, approached by stone steps with moulded nosings. The right-hand return front has five bays. A left-hand return front includes a full-height, three-bay square bay with a plinth, frieze, and chamfered eaves band. The north-east front has six bays with glazing bar sashes and flush stone lintels. A small-paned half-glazed door with beaded flush lower panels and a lozenge-pattern rectangular overlight is set within a C20 Tuscan porch. The service wing has two ashlar ridge stacks and an integral end stack with set backs, and its south-west front has glazing bar sashes (some 16-pane) with stone cills and flush stone lintels. A six-panelled door with a three-part rectangular overlight is positioned to the right, and a one-storey block adjoins to the left with a 3-light wooden casement. The rear of the service wing has irregularly-spaced sashes and some C20 alterations.

The interior, partly inspected, is largely of the early 19th century. The entrance hall is full-height and contains a two-flight, L-plan staircase with an open string, cut brackets, stick balusters (two per tread, with every eighth baluster cast iron), a handrail wreathed to an octagonal foot newel, and a balustraded landing on both sides of the hall. A plaster cornice features egg and dart enrichment. Six-panelled doors are found throughout, with moulded architraves. Marble fireplaces have reeded architraves with roundels at the corners.