Magnolia Cottage Stoke Allbrooke Upper House Waverley Cottage

TQ 04SW WONERSH C.P. UPPER HOUSE LANE

5/415 Upper House, Stoke Allbrooke Waverley Cottage and Magnolia Cottage

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Cottage, extended in C19 and C20, now divided. C16, extended by R. Norman-Shaw in 1874 when Hall, Drawing Room and offices were built. Further Norman-Shaw extensions in 1880 when new sitting room and bedroom were added to the west, new staircase and further additions by Shaw in 1887-8; all for Mrs Elinor Guthrie, later Mrs Arbuthnot. Further additions onto Shaw's work. Original cottage - timber framed clad in brick below, tile hung above in bands of fishscale pattern, hipped plain tiled roof with gablet. Timber framed gabled range to left with whitewashed render infilling. Two storeys, three framed bays with inserted stack to right of centre. Scrolled decorative bargeboards on gable wing. One window on each floor to right, two first floor and one square bay window on gabled wing. Door to re-entrant angle under hipped pentice hood. Range to right of 1 storey and attics with two hip roofed dormers and tall stack. Two windows on ground floor and glazed door. Single storey brick 1960's extension to right (Magnolia Cottage) of no special interest. Main Entrance Front to rear:- Double whitewashed infilled timber gables to right with bargeboards, brick and tile hanging on remainder. Offset star-shaped front stack to right. Two mullioned and transomed windows on the ground floor to right. Recessed lower range across the centre with tall stacks to front and rear. Gabled porch on moulded bressumer to centre. Tudor style door below plaster relief panel of Adam and Eve. Four-light window above in first floor of the porch. Further gable to left with chevron bracing and 5-light window. Jettied first floor on dragon posts, and C20 door in margin lights below. Tile hung linking range to left end with irregular casement fenestration to projecting return wing on left. Right hand return front:- wooden pump casing attached to wall. Panelled oak, carved with birds. Metal handle. Garden Front: Decorative stacks, crowstepped and chevroned to right. Tile hung over brick ground floor. Diamond-pane leaded casement fenestration, including oriel on first floor to right, two gabled dormers to left and square bay window to left. Finely carved lintels to many windows. Interiors:- Fine staircase with twisted balusters and scrolled tread ends. Carved panels in entrance porch. Plasterwork ceilings and panelling in some rooms. Three bay medieval style Hall with massive stone fireplace, crown post roof and plasterwork relief on end wall.

A. SAINT: RICHARD NORMAN SHAW (1976) pp. 110, 113, 151, 164, 310, 413 ill. 91.

Listing NGR: TQ0374542237