Spye Park House With Stables And Gate Piers

ST 96 NW BROMHAM SPYE PARK

1/66 Spye Park House with stables and gate piers

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Former stables and coach-house to Spye Park, now house, mid C17, ashlar with stone slate roof and 2 rear chimney gables with paired diagonal stacks. Coped gables with finials. Lead-capped bell cupola on West end. Two storeys and attic. Chamfered recessed mullion 2-light windows. North front has 5 gables, centre gable with C18 clock in roundel, the others with windows and dripstones. 7 similar first floor windows and 2 similar to ground floor left. Adjoining to right, a range of 6 arched coach entries with raised keystones and imposts. West wall has blocked arched opening in gable. To left of main range, link with large arched doorway and ornate carved C19 double doors from the demolished Spye Park. Link connects to L-plan mid to later C19 stable range, ashlar fronted, rock-faced rubble stone to rear. West front has 2 shallow shouldered gables with roundels over 2 large 4-panel doors alternating with large 12-pane windows. Range returns slightly to West to link to slightly lower similar range with one gable over similar 12-pane window with door each side. A rubble stone wall connects to 2 C19 ashlar gatepiers with ball finials. West end wall of original range has 2-light mullion windows and hoodmoulds to attic and first floor, arched ground floor opening. Rear has two large chimney gables set to left with attic 2-light windows, two first floor 2-light window under single dripcourse and ground floor lean-to with 4 short 2-light mullion windows and 2 doors. To right, long catslide roof and ground floor similar pair of short 2- light windows with doors each side. Original range is said to date from 1654 and to have been built for the Bayntun family who moved to Spye Park after the destruction of Bromham House in the Civil War. C19 additions probably built for J.W.G. Spicer, owner from 1864.

Listing NGR: ST9496167097