Lucknam Park

Lucknam Park is a country house with origins in the late 17th or early 18th century, though it was significantly refronted and extended around 1820, with further substantial alterations to the rear and interiors in 1921. The house is ashlar-faced with stone-tiled roofs and prominent corniced ashlar stacks. The long south front has a three-storey central section, likely a late 17th-century structure refronted, with a three-window range. The upper floor features canted corners, diagonal stacks, three coped gables, and 12-pane sashes. A mid-18th century moulded cornice sits above three 12-pane sashes in moulded architraves on the first floor, while the ground floor has an early 19th-century Greek Doric porch with four pairs of columns, pilaster responds, and a 12-pane sash on either side of the central double doors. Flanking the central section are early 19th-century wings, also with a three-window range of 12-pane sashes, the ground floors being longer and featuring moulded architraves. A parapet and moulded first-floor band define the wings. Projecting wings are situated at each end, with urns on the parapet corners and two-storey bows containing tripartite 4-12-4 upper windows and matching French windows below. The west and east fronts are largely from around 1921, as is the rear façade facing the rear court, dated 1921 and attributed to A.H.R. for Sir Alfred Reed. Attached to the east side is a large late 19th-century water tower, composed of three stages with a flat parapet and urns at the corner. A screen wall, with a broken pedimented archway and ball finial, stands to the north of the west range. To the north of the east range are a pair of stone gatepiers leading to a service court. The interior of the main rooms was remodelled in an early 18th-century style, likely around 1921. The house was previously owned by the Wallis family in the early 18th century, the Methuen family in the later 18th century, J. Clements around 1800, W. Tonge (1807-27), J.C. Boode (1827-70), and the Walmesley family (1870-1918). The major extensions likely date from after 1827.