Bulford Manor, And Front Wing Walls To Driveway

Bulford Manor is a manor house, now the official dwelling of the General Officer Commanding Land Forces (UK). It dates from the late 16th to early 17th century and was greatly extended in 1892. The building features flint and limestone chequerwork with a tiled roof, and it stands two storeys high with attics, comprising four bays.

The central entrance has a six-panelled door set within mid to late 17th-century rusticated pilasters, topped by a large arched timber canopy supported on brackets. The ground floor showcases four 4-light stone-mullioned windows with inset chamfered mouldings and labels, positioned above a chamfered plinth. On the first floor, there are seven 18-paned sash windows in wide box frames, though the sashes have been renewed. The attics feature four coped gables with ball finials, each gable containing a 3-light stone-mullioned window with a label above. There is a stack on the left gable with three diagonally set buff brick shafts, and a similar four-flue stack on the rear slope of the right bay.

To the right gable, there is a two-storey crenellated angled bay window, likely from the 19th century. At the rear, there is a parallel 18th-century brick block, banded with flint on the west gable, which now houses the drawing room and study. This section includes fifteen and twelve-paned sashes with 27-centimetre gauged brick lintels and stone keyblocks, and it features a panelled parapet.

The extensive addition from 1892, designed by HJ, extends beyond the gable of the earlier building and consists of three parallel ranges. The southernmost range has a canted bay facing west and a door in the re-entrant angle with the 18th-century block, which has a stone doorcase on the west gable, complete with attached columns and an entablature topped with a triangular pediment.

The interior details were not seen, but there is an 18th-century fireplace in the drawing room of the rear block. At the front of the house, there are splayed wing walls leading to the forecourt, which terminate in a rusticated limestone pier with a cornice and raised ball finial on the right. To the left, three similar piers define a pedestrian gate and the main gate to the carriage yard.