Kingswood Hall, Kingswood Court With Attached Screen Walls And Dairy And Kingswood Coach House

Kingswood Hall, Kingswood Court with attached screen walls and dairy and Kingswood Coach House

House, now divided into 2 dwellings, with attached screen walls, dairy and coach house. Built in 1902 by F W Troup for J King. Constructed in red and grey brick laid in diaper pattern with plain tiled roofs.

The main range is 2 storeys with attics to the rear, lit by two gabled dormers to the left. Four cross-ridge stacks rise from the main range. The entrance front is symmetrical with projecting gable end wings. A central boarded gabled dormer contains two leaded casements over a decorated lead panel. One window is positioned on the first floor of each gable. The right hand gable has an oriel type bay window on braces at ground floor level. The left gable has two mullioned and transomed cambered head windows to the ground floor, set under tile-on-edge heads. Five leaded casements light the first floor of the centre section, with the outer ones being two-light, while the centre ones are three and four-light. The ground floor has two cambered head mullioned and transomed windows to the left and two to the right. A central door with margin lights is set beneath a battlemented porch with decorative lead panel and wooden lintel, supported by brick side walls and two stone pillars with octagonal plinths and caps and convex section shafts. A further door to the right is inserted into an old window opening.

A subsidiary range is set back to the right and masked by a quadrant screen wall ramped down from the house, finished with flat ashlar coping and ball finial.

The garden front of the main range is gabled to the left with an angle bay to ground floor. To the right of centre is a splay bay with a stone coped steep gable above. Leaded casement windows light this elevation, and a curving screen wall runs along the front to the left.

The subsidiary range has a hexagonal dairy at its left end, fitted with two 2-light windows with board shutters.

Projecting from the subsidiary range to the front right is a former wood and coal-store range linking the main range to the coach house. This comprises 2 bays; the yard elevation has a right bay projecting and gabled with double board sliding doors, each fitted with a small window, and a weatherboard gable above with pitching door. The left bay is set back with double board sliding doors. A ridge cupola to the right bay features decorative clock faces to each side of its leaded lower stage, with an open upper stage and swept lead roof with ball finial and weather vane. The left return has a 3-light window and formerly had a weatherboard gable with wood-mullioned window opening.

Interior: The hall in Kingswood Hall contains a stone fireplace under a projecting hood, with wood panelling to the walls; the frieze above is now obliterated. The former coach house and linking range were in a state of disrepair at the time of inspection.

The house is considered F W Troup's best work, and drawings survive in the RIBA.