Greystones

Greystones is a house built in 1921 for Mr Rudman, Master of Eton College and a collector. The construction uses squared limestone rubble with freestone detailing, a stone slate roof, and stone stacks. Its architectural style is an eclectic Vernacular Revival, incorporating a collection of architectural features. The plan is L-shaped, with a brick two-story gabled porch in the centre and a rear service wing.

The front of the property has a three-window range plus a projecting wing to the right. The porch features a stone sundial finial, a Venetian window on the front, a bull's-eye window on the left return of the first floor, and an early 18th-century open pediment and moulded architrave over a 20th-century door. Flanking the porch are four-light stone-mullioned windows on the first floor, a similar transomed window to the right of the ground floor, and a four-light timber-mullioned window to a canted bay with a hipped, stone-slated roof. The projecting wing to the right has a large external stack with two sundials at first-floor level and paired diagonally-set square shafts. The right return features four-light stone-mullioned windows on both floors, a canted bay similar to the front, and a ball finial on the roof. The left return has a square stack flanked by single-light windows. The rear includes a large hipped dormer in the centre, a smaller one to the right, three-light stone-mullioned windows on both floors and a flat-roofed two-story service wing.

The interior incorporates medieval and early 18th-century items, including an oak beam, a Tudor-arched fireplace to the central ground-floor room, and full-height early 18th-century panelling in a room to the left. Later, high-quality 20th-century features include a cantilevered stone staircase, doors with wrought-iron hinges and catches, and elm floorboards. The house is set within formal gardens with clipped yew hedges. It is a notable example of its kind, with similarities to the contemporary work of Blunden Shadbolt, and incorporates salvaged elements from earlier buildings.