Hound House

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TQ 04 SE 10/194

SHERE CP Hound House Road Hound House

(Formerly listed as EWHURST ROAD Hound House)

14.6.67

GV II

House. Mid C16 to rear, extended to left in C17, further extensions across the front of 1815 and to ends in mid C19, C20 extensions to rear.

Front range: colourwashed stucco with low pitched, hipped, slate roof. Two storeys over basement with deep corbelled eaves and stacks to rear left and right. Regular front: three sash windows across first floor, two sixteen-pane glazing bar sashes to ground floor. Doubled panel doors in recessed porch to centre with oval fanlight, flanking lights and moulded wood frame. Half-oval portico with fluted Doric columns and pilasters on angled responds supporting full entablature. One bay set back to right of sandstone block with brick dressings on left hand return front.

C20 wing extending to rear left of 45° parallel to front range and set slightly to right is old house: timber framed clad in sandstone and chalk block with painted brick dressings. Some posts of the frame visible. Plain tiled roof, hipped to left, hipped with gable to right. Triple corbelled stack to right and smaller front ridge stack to right of centre. Irregular easement fenestration, largely leaded. Four windows on first floor with larger casements to first floor left breaking up into eaves. Two cambered head windows to ground floor with one pair of casement doors to left. Panelled door to centre under hipped roof open porch. Wing canted at 45° to right end.

Listing NGR: TQ0745744837