Combe Hill Including Walls To The Walled Garden

This is a gentleman’s villa, built in 1789 and altered significantly in the early 20th century. It is constructed from rendered stone and brick, with the attic end walls framed, and has a slate roof, half-hipped at the ends of the main range. The house has a plan resembling a capital "L."

The original design features a double-depth main range facing approximately south, with a kitchen wing set at a right angle to the right. The entrance is on the east side of the building, overlooking three principal rooms. Tall flint rubble walls enclose a service courtyard to the north of the main house and a large walled garden beyond.

In the early 20th century, three projecting bays were added to the south (garden) elevation, along with a new staircase and a single-storey music room linked to the main house by a glazed lean-to on the east front. The later additions are high quality and sympathetic to the original style, extending cornices and skirtings into the newly added bays.

The symmetrical south elevation features a five-sided, two-storey projecting bay in the centre, with a peaked slate roof and canted bays to the left and right. Above a bold dentil moulding, a parapet projects around the central bays. The bays are glazed with small-pane timber sash windows. The east return (entrance elevation) features an early 20th-century gabled porch with a two-leaf, half-glazed outer door, a fanlight with spoke glazing, and a window to the left. Further features include a 20th-century tripartite timber sash window, and three first-floor and one attic-storey twelve-pane sashes. The glazed lean-to leading to the music room has small-pane windows with Gothic-style arched glazing bars. The music room itself includes a hipped slate roof, a canted bay on the south end with matching sash windows, and a stack at the north end.

The interior displays a mix of late 18th and early 20th century details, including moulded plaster cornices, marble fireplaces, high-quality joinery, and an Edwardian staircase. Cellars are believed to be the remains of an earlier house on the site. The late 18th century roof structure remains, adapted to accommodate the early 20th century additions. The flint rubble walls form the service courtyard and the boundary of the walled garden to the rear.