The Bill House

SELSEY GRAFTON ROAD SZ 89 SE 23/7 The Bill House - - II

House. 1907 by M H Baillie Scott in an Arts and Crafts vernacular revival style L-plan with service wing to north and main wing to south. Pebble-dashed and painted with exposed stone dressings, some stone and flint chequer work and exposed timber-framing to tower gallery. Graded slate roofs. ENTRANCE FRONT 1 1/2 2 storeys with projecting wings to left and right and in centre, with the roof sweeping down between to form buttresses catslide and further projecting half- hipped wing to extreme right. Diamond stone and flint chequer in central gable. Various mullion and mullion and transom stone windows with iron casements. Central low round-arched doorway with recessed boarded and ribbed door. SEA FRONT: 1 storey and attic. Almost symmetrical with low gabled cross-wing projections towards each end of block, that to left glazed with mullion and transom multi-light window flanked by similar window to right and that to right with 5-light mullion window on ground floor and 3-light window in gable above. Triple arched centre glazed with French casements, and brick and flint chequer above with four-light window to right. SERVICE WING COURT SIDE. Central yard entrance with two 2-light mullion windows to right and various one and two-light windows to left with pair of cart-doors and smaller door beyond. Tower to left with timber-framed gallery arch on brackets and pyramidal bellcast roof with weathervane. EXTERIOR SIDE. Gable to left projecting the east end of the main block. Central flat-headed dormer with 2 semi-dormers to left and gabled dormer to right. Deep catslide to right of courtyard entrance. INTERIOR: Chalk- vaulted loggia with groin-vaults. Framing displayed at end of living-hall, which also contains very large tiled inglenook with wood surround to opening. Some Arts and Crafts style plasterwork of leaves and grapes survives.

Listing NGR: SZ8556792220