Tellisford House And Attached Front Garden Walls, Piers And Gates Trinmore And Attached Front Garden Walls, Piers And Gates

Tellisford House and Trinmore are a pair of attached houses, built in 1853 by William Baker. They are constructed of squared sandstone rubble with limestone dressings, featuring a party wall, gable stacks, and a double-pile slate roof with bands of hexagonal slates. The design is Jacobethan in style, with a broadly symmetrical facade of three storeys and a seven-window range. Recessed entrance sections flank the property, each with kneelers to ogee gables and finials, surmounted by a full-width ground-floor cornice. The entrances are defined by rusticated square piers, incorporating blocked columns with raised lintels on carved brackets, and faceted panels. Tiled lobbies contain arched side windows with stained-glass margin panes, leading to doorways with Ionic three-quarter columns framing semicircular arches. These doorways are topped with 5-light fanlights and have four-panel doors with lozenges in the lower panels. The mullion windows are framed with decorative curved sections to the top, sides, and bottom; ground-floor windows have transoms, and those on the first floor feature oval panels to the aprons and raised cornices. Tellisford House features a three-window inner range and a central, two-storey, three-light bow topped by a large curved parapet with a carved oval panel. Trinmore has a two-window range, with a prominently set forward ogee gable to the left, displaying three-light ground- and first-floor windows, and a stone balcony on the first floor. Second-floor windows are configured as half dormers with cornices and swan's neck pediments, breaking through a parapet with gableted dies. The windows are fitted with 2/2-pane sashes. The left return includes a four-storey square tower with a machicolated, overhanging crenellated parapet, and a first-floor canted oriel with a moulded base and weathered top, displaying stained glass margin panes. The right return is characterised by a wide, first-floor, six-light mullion window, and a rear gable with an oculus. The rear elevation incorporates projecting wings with two-storey canted ashlar bays, and keyed oculi. The stacks are distinguished by raised panels separated by faceted squares. The interior has not been inspected. Attached squared, coursed rubble walls extend approximately 80 meters around the front garden, exhibiting a battered base, bracketed coping, ashlar piers with finials, and timber gates with decorative cast-iron panels. The property forms part of a group of four imposing houses facing the Downs.