The Hearne

CHARLTON KINGS

SO9620NE HEARNE ROAD 630-1/34/74 (West side) 14/12/83 No.12 The Hearne

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Villa. c1828-32. For Alexander Nicholson of East Court, London Road (qv) with later alterations including those of early C20 (c1919) to interior and addition of study for AW Martyn by HH Martyn and Company, Architectural Craftsmen, and late C20 restorations. MATERIALS: stucco over brick with slate roof. Continuous cornice and parapet between dormer gables, 2 to south and 2 to east. Gables have panelled finials with poppyheads to south. Chimneys surmount outer gables to east, further chimneys to north side, all with cornices. East parapet has central tracery-panelled finial with poppyhead and a carved head below. South parapet has a central sundial with shaped surround. Tudor-Gothic style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic. 1 + 3 windows to south, 3 to east, 2-light wooden mullioned casements with cusped Tudor-arched heads and with marginal glazing bars in chamfered surrounds and with drip stones. French windows on ground floor to south, 3-light transomed windows to east. Main feature to east is the porte-cochere: projecting canopy with traceried panelling and cresting on slender clustered piers. Half-glazed 'Tudor' panelled door with 4 stained-glass panels above in 4-centre-arched surround with headstops, reputed to represent Elizabeth I and Lord Burleigh. Original conservatory to south: gable at each end with tracery-panelled infill, section between with cusped lights; roof restored. INTERIOR: early C20 alterations include panelling and plasterwork, the dining room plasterwork reputed to be a copy of designs used at Hampton Court (apparently Neo-Georgian). Study has small panelling. HISTORICAL NOTE: the house was erected on the site of an older property. Nicolson mortgaged the property in 1833 to William Baylis. AW Martyn bought the house in 1919 for »2,000, he was the son of HH Martyn. (The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 121; Charlton Kings Local History Society Bulletin: 1989-: 11-16).

Listing NGR: SO9679220530