Bonslea House

Bonslea House is a house dating to around 1900. It is constructed of stretcher bond red brick with stone dressings and has a plain tile hipped roof with coved eaves and lead flats; brick axial stacks provide ventilation. The plan arranges principal rooms around a central atrium, with service rooms to the north and a colonnade to the south garden front. Bedrooms are located in the basement, with windows overlooking the River Stour to the west. The architecture is an eclectic mix of Italianate, Queen Anne, and Jacobethan styles.

The east front is asymmetrical, featuring a large square bay window to the right with a hipped roof, a smaller canted bay window to the left, and an elliptically arched doorway between, sheltered by a brick hoodmould. Cross-mullion-transom windows are present, along with a small timber-frame gable on the southeast corner. The south garden front showcases a stone Tuscan 7-bay colonnade, bowed at the centre, with a balustrade above and a trefoil balustrade between the columns; the ground level is lower on the left, and beneath the colonnade is a rusticated stone arcade and a staircase leading to a lower garden level. A 3-storey circular turret stands on the southwest corner, featuring stone mullion-transom windows with leaded panes and a lead tented roof. A smaller roughcast circular turret provides access to the roof flat and includes a lantern for the atrium. The west side is two storeys, asymmetrical, with a centrally recessed area and a large timber square oriel with an ogee lead roof and deep coved eaves.

The large central atrium features thin cast-iron columns supporting a glazed lantern with ornate curved iron girders/trusses and yellow stained glass to the margin panes. The drawing room on the southwest corner has a neo-Classical plaster ceiling, an elaborate wooden fretwork screen, and a large chimneypiece. A room in the southeast corner includes a fretwork screen in the bay window. Another room on the west side has a large chimneypiece with an oval mirror and flanking cupboards. A bedroom in the southwest corner of the basement features a chimneypiece with shelves and a tiled iron grate/stove with hinged doors. The interior also includes moulded panel doors and architraves, and moulded plaster ceiling cornices.