Lanscombe House

Lanscombe House is a villa dating from the mid-19th century, with later alterations and extensions. It is constructed of rendered stone rubble with deep plastered eaves and a gabled grey slate roof, featuring brick chimneys.

The building has an irregular plan, with the main range set at right angles to the road, a gabled cross wing extension to the west, and a rear service range also at right angles to the main range. The principle entrance is situated at the rear, within a north-facing courtyard. The staircase is located to the west of the entrance, and the main rooms are arranged along the south-east facing garden elevation. A modern extension exists to the west of the service range.

The south-east, or garden, elevation has two stories. A central glazed door is topped by a large overlight, flanked by tall tripartite sash windows that retain scalloped pelmet boxes from early external blinds. The first floor features three 12-pane sash windows. The gabled cross wing to the west has 20th-century French windows on the ground floor, with a 12-pane sash window above. The east gable has a tall tripartite sash on the ground floor, with diminishing 12-pane sashes above on the first floor and in the attic.

The north-facing courtyard elevation features the main entrance with a six-panel door, flanked by small, horned four-pane sashes. A small single-story addition is located to the east of the courtyard facade. The remaining windows are a mix of 12- and 16-pane sashes, occasional horned sashes, and one tripartite sash window on the east elevation of the service range.

Internally, the main rooms on the south-east elevation incorporate room-height tripartite sash windows and deep skirtings. A late-19th century marble fireplace is located in the easternmost room. The ground floor features largely six-panel mid-19th century doors and deep, panelled door cases. The open well staircase is in the hall to the west of the entrance; it is a plain closed string staircase with painted stick balusters, turned dark wood newels, simple pendants and a plain moulded handrail. There are seven bedrooms, all with small, inserted ensuite bathrooms; two have 19th-century fireplaces. On the first floor, most doors are late 19th century with four panels. The back stairs, formerly in the service range, have been removed. The attic space exhibits evidence of the extension to the west of the main range and the original west gable.

Lanscombe House is designated at Grade II for its mid-19th century origins, its good, classically inspired exterior, and for retaining a good amount of 19th-century interior joinery despite later alterations.