Hendham House

WOODLEIGH HENDHAM SX 75 SW 2/123 Hendham House (formerly listed as Lower Hendham 26.1.67 Farm House) II Shown on OS map as Lower Hendham. Shown on OS map as Lower Hendham. Detached house. Dated 1779. Rubble, rendered to ground floor front, slate-hung left return wall; asbestos-cement slate roof. Compact hipped block with symmetrical front but staircase centred to left wall, also upper flight to centre back. Three storeys and basement, 3-window front; 12 and 16-pane sashes to stone voussoir at first and second floors. Ground-floor has lofty glazing-bar French doors flanking central 6-panel part-glazed door in panelled reveals to elliptical fanlight. Across whole frontage to ground floor a flat-roofed veran- dah carried on 8 very slender fluted wood Doric columns with slight dentilled entablature; last bay to right enclosed in original slight glazing, left end with part-glazed door under transom-light at head of short flight of stone stairs. All set to stone terrace with central flight of 6 stone steps with nosings. Left return has 12 and 16 pane sashes, and lofty stair sash. Right return has 12 over 16 over 20-pane sashes, also a 16-pane below two blocked openings, and date-stone; back includes a very wide 2-panel door under lofty stair window. Door to basement in east end. Stack, loft-back. Interior: many goods fieldedpanel doors, shutters; dog-leg stair with turned balusters, decorative tread-ends, all painted except stripped handrail. Basement includes large segmental brick fireplace, central spiral wood staircase, slate flags, but some cobbled flooring to front part. The wide 16-pane sashes may be replace- ments, or very early examples if the date-stone is to be believed.

Listing NGR: SX7431150966