Coombe House

WITHERIDGE COOMBE BALL HILL SS 71 SE 8/75 Coombe House 20.2.67 - II Farmhouse. Early C19. Roughcast and whitewashed on a rubble core, wide eaves, slate roof, 3 brick ridge stacks. Plan and development: house with a- entrance hall, drawing room to left, dining room to right, low service range at right-angles to rear of left. Kitchen to left of front. Single room depth. Exterior: 2 storeys, 2:3 bays, original 16-pane sash windows and 2 windows to first floor with semi-circular heads and Gothick glazing. Door opening to centre of right 3 bays, 6-panelled door, the top 4 panels cut away, and glazed, flat wooden hood on fretwork brackets wooden doorcase with pilasters. Further door opening in the left return. Interior: retains most of its coeval features including a handsome staircase, turned thin newels, stick balusters, ramped toadsback handrail, tread brackets; doors, architraves, window shutters and late C19 chimneypieces with cast-iron grates. Kitchen with large open fireplace.

Listing NGR: SS7960213957