Halsannery Field Centre

The Halsannery Field Centre is a large house, dating from the early to mid-19th century. It is constructed with solid rendered walls and has a hipped slate roof with rendered chimneys featuring panelled sides. The building follows a double-depth plan, with three rooms wide and a central hallway running from the main entrance on the right side of the building to the rear staircase. A back staircase leads to a rear right wing, behind which are the original kitchen and an L-shaped service wing, the latter featuring an arcaded facade on the left side, opening onto a small courtyard. The house has cellars and two storeys, with a five-window front overlooking the garden and a four-window front on the right. The garden front is characterized by flanking pilasters that rise to a scroll-bracketed eaves cornice, with the central window slightly projected. The ground-floor windows have plain surrounds with cornices on enriched consoles; the central window has an additional frieze decorated with wreaths. The second-floor windows have moulded architraves, with the central window featuring flanking pilasters. The outer windows on both storeys are fitted with six-paned sashes. The right-hand ground-floor window contains three-paned French windows with a three-paned fanlight above. The centre windows have two-paned sashes, except for a four-paned sash in the middle light of the second-floor windows; the upper sashes are round-headed. The entrance front is similar in style, but the ground-floor windows lack the consoles. A large porte-cochere, largely rebuilt in the 20th century, features a square wooden bay window above, likely dating from the late 19th or early 20th century, with glazing bars and a fluted frieze. A round-arched stable gateway is adjacent to the right-hand side, with flanking pilasters and an open-work screen of semi-circular panels within the archway. A bell is held within a scrolled iron frame positioned above the gateway. The interior retains many original, high-quality details, including an enriched modillion cornice and an ornate screen with composite columns in the hallway. The geometrical wooden staircase has thin round balusters carved with lilies at the base and an oval skylight decorated with plaster lilies and anthemions. The front ground-floor rooms are particularly well-detailed, with one containing an enriched cornice and frieze, and a white marble chimneypiece with Egyptian-style columns. Other rooms feature foliated chandelier-bosses, with one set into a panelled ceiling. The wooden back stairs have octagonal balusters and newels. The kitchen fireplace has a key-patterned wooden surround. Several good, later wooden chimneypieces, probably from the early to mid-20th century, are also present; one in the ground-floor front room depicts a caryatid-like angel, and another in the first-floor rear right room contains inset blue Delft tiles.