Tranquility

Tranquility is a small country house built in the early 19th century. It features stucco over rubble with quoin strips, a ground floor impost band, and a mid-floor band, topped by a dry slate hipped roof with projecting eaves and axial stacks. The house has a double-depth plan and a service wing that extends at right angles to the rear right. Designed in the Regency style, it stands two storeys over a basement with a symmetrical three-bay, three-window garden front. The central bay has a half-conical roof and features 20th-century replica 16-pane hornless sash windows with round fanlight heads on the ground floor, alongside late 19th-century small round-headed windows inserted to the sides. The left-hand return has a two-window front with similar sashes. At the rear, there is an original central projecting entrance bay with a 16-pane sash above a six-panel door that has moulded panels with corner blocks and a spoked fanlight. Recessed panels flank the porch, and there is a 12-pane sash window to the stair hall on the left, with blind windows to a bay set back on the right, which has a 20th-century spoked round window in the lower panel.

The interior is virtually complete and showcases fine plasterwork and joinery, including an open-well open-string staircase with scrolled tread ends, a ramped mahogany handrail, and a wreathed newel with a carved post. The doorways have moulded architraves with corner blocks and roundels, and there are six-panel doors throughout. Moulded and carved ceiling bands are present in the entrance hall, stair hall, central reception room, and the right-hand room, while a moulded cornice adorns the left-hand room, with a fanlight situated between the entrance and stair halls. Tranquility is a good example of its type, featuring an elegant facade.