No 5 (Rodney House) With Its Stable Yard And Wall And Garden Railings

ROUNDSTONE STREET 1. 5411 (South Side) No 5 (Rodney House) with its stable yard and wall and garden railings. ST 8558 5/47 29.12.50. II* GV

1. Commanding late C18 town mansion. Built soon after 1790) for the younger James Selfes. 3 storeys. Bath stone on projecting plinth. Plain string at 1st floor level. Vitruvian scroll containing quatrefoils at 2nd floor cill level. Fluted frieze with alternate fillers. Moulded cornice. Parapet with moulded coping and balustrade panels over windows. 5 ranges of glazing bar sash windows. Central doorway to ground floor with plain arched fanlight and narrow side lights, architrave to arch and over side lights. Slightly later Greek Doric porch of 2 fluted columns on tall block bases, 2 wall pilasters and enablature with triglyph frieze and modillioned cornice. Flanking symetrical walls with garden doorways of plain piers and heads, formerly round headed arches in recesses with carved foliage over (of also garden front). The wall to left continues to stables (qv) Dwarf wall to right with arrow head railings. Hipped slate roof, 1 ashlar chimney to west. Garden front with 3 ranges of windows, side windows slightly set back in panel terminated by wide corner pier: Pilasters to ground floor with Venetian windows in arched recesses the centre a door. Moulded cope to blocking course with end panels. 2 blind pedimented openings on each side with blind panels having carved swags above. Interior retains much finely executed plasterwork.

Nos 2 to 4 (consec), No 5 (Rodney House) with stable yard and garden railings, stable buildings and walls, Nos 8 to 13 (consec) No 25 (Lovemead House), garden wall and gate piers form a group with Polebarn House and boundary wall, gatepiers and gates and, Polebarn Road, and Nos 1 to 6 (consec) Yerbury Almshouses, Yerbury Street.

Listing NGR: ST8584758013