Kimsbury House

SO 81 SE UPTON ST LEONARDS STOCKLEY WAY (east side)

6/210 Kimsbury House

II

Large country house. c1885; by F.S. Waller. Rock-faced coursed rubble limestone; ashlar dressings; ashlar chimmney; Welsh slate roof. Double depth central staircase plan; 2-storey with attic; 2- storey service wing to south. Stylistically a mix of Jacobean revival and Queen Anne. West front: central parapet gable breaks forward with moulded coping and finials; 2-window fenestration to lower floors either side of gable are sashes with keyed segmental arches and beaded architraves; 12-pane upper floor sashes, no glazing bars to ground floor; 2 hipped roofed attic dormers; moulded eaves and plain banding between floors; central pedimented projecting porch in Roman Doric order with rusticated inner arch to front and sides; balustraded porch parapet; 6-panel fielded door in round-arched glazed screen; wide ridge-mounted rectangular chimneys with moulded caps. Service wing to left with 3-window 12-pane sash fenestration and hipped roof; single-storey service projection converted to garage. North elevation: parapet gable to right with 2-storey canted bay window; 2-window fenestration to left with chimney between. East elevation: central part of elevation has 3- window fenestration, round-arched to ground floor with curved roof to attached conservatory; large parapet gablets to hipped roofs of flanking wing projections, each with 2-storey bay window; 2-storey service wing to left. Many rooms with classical fireplaces; stained glass hall windows. An accomplished late Victorian house of considerable landscape impact. Dominant upon ascent of Upton Hill.

Listing NGR: SO8649112984