Badminton School And Attached Wall And Doorway

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ST5776 WESTBURY ROAD, Stoke Bishop 901-1/28/2018 (West side) Badminton School and attached wall and doorway

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House, now school. Mid C18, extended to NE mid C19. Render with limestone dressings, limestone ashlar, squared, coursed Carboniferous rubble, and a slate hipped roof. Double-depth plan. Mid Georgian style with Jacobethan-style extension. Entrance front is a 2-storey; 2-window range, attached to 2-storey; 2-window range C19 block. The earlier house has a rendered, parapet wall, openings with keyed architraves, right-hand door and central canted bay with fluted angle pilasters; 6/6-pane first-floor sash, the rest C20 casements. C19 house to the left has a rubble plinth, quoins, cornice to ground and first floors, parapet and tall round finial columns to each corner. Right-hand porch has paired, attached 3/4 columns, round fluted ones to the inside, entablature and large gadrooned corner urns and a panelled parapet; keyed Tudor-arched doorway has 2-leaf 10-panel doors with anthemia to the top, and a gadrooned over-panel. Mullion and transom windows with ovolo mouldings and metal casements. The left side breaks forward, with tripartite windows, outer ones blind on the first floor, and a Dutch gable with round panels to a keyed oculus and blind balustrade. The left return has a similar left-hand projecting section, with a full-height central semicircular 4-light bow with outer windows, and right-hand paired 6-light windows, blocked to the ground floor; plain parapet with central and flanking round panels. A central square 3-stage tower set at an angle has open semicircular arches flanked by 3/4 Doric columns to an entablature, and semicircular-arched French doors and a fanlight; narrow first-floor windows with raised surrounds, third floor with oculi, and a square ogee copper dome with a weather vane. The rear elevation has a similar left-hand wing, and right-hand 12-light windows with flanking narrow windows as on the tower, and a gable above. INTERIOR: details of the C18 house include an axial passage with a semicircular panelled arch, and dogleg winder service stairs with a banded rail and curtail. The C19 house includes a large entrance hall with semicircular arches to each side with grotesque keys, and a ceiling divided by moulded beams, to a central stair hall with an Imperial stair with turned balusters and square newels, and ceiling rose. A good stone Jacobean style fireplace in the NE room has triple Ionic columns to the surround and overmantel, with entablature and cresting, a central heraldic panel of the City and flanking statues in niches, all decorated with strapwork; cornice and frieze, doors with round-topped panels; marble fireplaces in the other downstairs rooms and former bedrooms. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached rubble wall extends approx 10m from SE corner, with a Jacobethan-style decorative doorway with raised quoins and pediment. A decorative and well-detailed house.

Listing NGR: ST5714876445