Puslinch House

SX 55 SE NEWTON AND NOSS 4/162 29/3/60 Puslinch House

GV I

Country house and seat of the Yonge family. Circa 1720 built for James Yonge. Architect unknown but of the "Queen Anne" Wren type. Red brick in Flemish bond and with stone dressings. Rusticated stone quoins, plain string course and moulded stone plinth. Slate hipped mansard roof with large moulded eaves cornice. Double depth rectangular plan. Two storeys, attics and basement. North entrance front 2:3:2 bays. Centre three bays break forward. Tall sash windows complete with thick glazing bars rubbed brick flat arches with keystones and moulded stone cills. Large central stone doorway with Corinthian half-column, pediment, pulvinated frieze and moulded architrave. Tall fielded ten-panel door. Flight of moulded stone steps with iron balustrade. The south, garden front is similar but has tall central garden door in rusticated architrave with segmental pediment and steps with iron balustrade. East and west side elevations of five bays without centre breaks. The west side has pedimented centre ground floor window and circa C19 single storey porch. Segmental and triangular pedimented dormers with sashes. On the east side the ground level is lower and the basement windows have stone ovolo moulded cross mullions and transoms, and the basement door has a moulded granite architrave, C20 service door and porch above with a flight of C20 stairs. Large rendered symmetrically arranged chimney stacks with cornices. Interior: good contemporary interior including open-well staircase with three twisted balusters per tread, moulded hand rail ramped up to fluted column newels and panelled dado. Panelled rooms including entrance hall with fielded panelling, cornices, plasterwork and chimneypieces. Contemporary joinery intact including servants' stair from the basement to the attics. James Yonge was the son of Dr James Yonge a Naval surgeon. Puslinch House replaced the old manor house, now known as Old Puslinch Farmhouse qv. which is situated approximately 150 metres to west north west. Country Life Volume 74 November 18th 1933 pages 524-529.

Listing NGR: SX5695050893