Evington House

Evington House is a house dating from the 17th century, with significant alterations in the 1830s for Sir Arthur Brooke, around 1900, and in the late 19th and 20th centuries, notably to the rear. The construction is primarily brick-nogged timber-framing, with a stone plinth; the 1830s block is roughcast. It has tiled roofs. The main part of the house is a five-window, two-storey block, one room deep, with a three-bay, one-and-a-half-storey wing set at right angles to form an ‘L’ shape.

The front of the main block has a slightly projecting bay on the right-hand side. All windows have roughcast hoodmoulds with long ears. On the right side of the front is a three-light mullion and transom window with small panes and ogee heads to the lights. To the left is a pair of sashes with Y tracery set within a hoodmould at the head. The lower wing abuts the main wing on the left. Above the lower wing, two four-pane sashes are visible on the right, beneath a conjoined hoodmould, with a decorative board above the window. A gable is situated above. To the left are three sashes with marginal lights, and heads matching those below. A gable sits over the left two windows, with a central blind opening; it has a moulded surround, a smooth render finish, and a steeply-cambered head. The bargeboards and eaves fascias are decorated with Greek key and paterae motifs, with pendant finials at the apex and foot of the gables. Chimneys are positioned at each end and one bay from the right.

The lower wing on the left has a single-storey roughcast porch on the front, against the taller wing, with a five-panel door (the top half glazed) and a hoodmould; a parapet gable is above. To the left return is a two-light casement with a semi-circular head. A two-light casement matches that of the porch; a late 20th-century boarded stable door is also present, alongside a similar window. Above the wing are three gabled dormers, each with a two-light casement, iron opening lights, Y tracery, and a gable finial. An external chimney stands on the left end and one bay from the right.

Inside, the entrance hall has a stone paved floor with slate inserts. A room to the right features an ornamental plaster cornice and a central rose in the ceiling. The timber-framed house was rewindowed, and a large extension was built in the 1830s. The right bay of the extension may be slightly later, and an upper floor was added to that bay around 1900.