The Georgian House

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SX9263 PARK HILL ROAD 885-1/18/213 (East side) 10/01/75 The Georgian House (Formerly Listed as: PARKHILL ROAD Gerogian House)

GV II

Shown on OS map as Faldonside. Villa, now in use as old people's home. c1830s with c1850s addition and late C20 rear additions. Plastered stacks with rendered shafts and moulded cornices. PLAN: Double-depth main block, approximately square on plan, with entrance into an open well stair hall with main rooms off. Probably slightly later service wing adjoins at right. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and basement. Symmetrical 3-bay entrance front plus one-bay wing to right. First-floor and eaves platband, outer pilaster strips from platband to eaves. Shallow projecting stacks to left and right of centre, with shafts projecting through roof. Centre bay has first and second-floor 12-pane sash, second-floor sash in right-hand chimney shaft. Round-headed sashes to ground-floor left and right. Large, elaborate 3-bay Roman Doric porch, possibly an Edwardian addition. Freestanding and engaged columns with an entablature; round-headed outer doorway with pilasters and keyblock; round-headed openings in outer bays with keyblocks and ramped balustrading. Mosaic floor to porch. Gabled wing to right with round-headed 2-pane sashes to first and second floors and tripartite segmental-headed sash to ground floor. Left return of main block of 3 bays divided by pilasters above first-floor platband; round-headed ground-floor sashes; other windows 2-pane sashes with one modern replacement. INTERIOR: Good plaster cornice to stair hall with delicate acanthus pattern; open well stick baluster stair with galleried landings; panelled doors.

Listing NGR: SX9241763116