Pewsham House

Pewsham House is a country house built in 1892 by C.E. Ponting for W.L. Lysley. It features Cattybrook red brick with Ham Hill stone dressings, plain tile hipped and gabled roofs, and prominent moulded brick stacks. The house is two storeys with an attic and incorporates mixed 17th century details, including ovolo-moulded mullion windows.

The entrance front is asymmetric, featuring a hipped roof, a large east stack, and a projecting gable to the right with an off-centre ashlar two-storey porch bay. The main gable has an attic five-light window and a large five by three-light mullion-and-transom leaded stair light to the right of the porch. The porch has a shaped gable, a narrow upper four-light window, and an ornate entry with Ionic pilasters, a segmental arch, a keystone, and a shell pediment. The inner doorcase is bolection-moulded.

To the left of the porch, there are paired pedimented four-light timber dormers, with two, three, and two-light upper windows and two-light ground floor windows on either side of a large canted one-three-one-light mullion-and-transom canted bay. A paired gabled service range is located to the left. To the right, there is a wing gabled to the west with a north moulded stack. A moulded ashlar string course runs around the entire building.

The south front is nearly symmetrical, with gables on either side of the centre; the left gable has different fenestration compared to the right. The centre features a two-four-two-light timber dormer with a segmental pediment, mullion windows on the first floor, and a large off-centre two-five-two-light mullioned and transomed canted bay. The service wing to the right has paired gables and an additional gable-ended range to the right. The west end has a large shaped gable at the end of the north front with an off-centre two-storey bay.

Inside, the house generally reflects a mid to later 17th century style, highlighted by an open well stair. Stained glass featuring the Lysley arms and monogram can be found in the stair windows. The design was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1892, and original drawings are located within the house.