Banks Fee

LONGBOROUGH SP 12 NE 3/123 Banks Fee GV II Country house. c1760, probably for John Scott (q.v. monument in Church of St James, Longborough.) Ashlar, and coursed squared and dressed limestone, slate roof, ashlar stacks. Square plan, north- east wing demolished. 2 storeys and attic and cellar. Symmetrical garden front. Ground floor rooms and entrance hall extended forward by one bay c1870. Entrance hall set back slightly in relation to extensions either side. Flat-chamfered quoins to original facade and extension. 2:1:2 windowed facade, triangular pediment with modillion cornice over central Venetian window with keystone. Modillioned eaves cornice either side of pediment, ball finials flanking pediment and at corners of parapet. Blind balustrade below, Venetian window. Sections of similar blind balustrading to parapet above projecting flat-roofed extension to ground floor rooms, ball finials at corners of parapet. All windows C20 plate glass sashes within moulded architraves with keystones. C20 part-glazed central door flanked by single lights within moulded C20 architrave with keystone. Two late C19 canted bay windows lighting east front. North front repointed with C20 alterations to entrance. West front unaltered. Interior; cornices survive in most of the principal rooms. 2 original marble fireplaces one in front right-hand room. Some original fielded 6-panel doors with moulded architraves with friezes with patera decoration. Some shutters with fielded panels. Curving late C19 stone stair with cast iron balustrade and wreathed wooden hand rail lit by central square stair lantern with original moulding.

Listing NGR: SP1777228960