Shorne Hill

Shorne Hill is a country house built in 1908 by Ernest Willmott, who was a pupil of Sir Herbert Baker. Constructed of rendered brickwork with tiled roofs, it is designed in a Dutch colonial style, with an E-shaped plan. The house is one storey with attics. The entrance front, facing east, features a central two-storey porch with a decorative gable, a segmental head, and console supporters. The porch has an arched entrance, a niche above, a two-light small-paned casement window above that, and an oculus in the gable. Sash windows are located on either side of the porch. Wings project forward, each with an arched window above a plain sash. The house has a tall mansard roof with two-light, flat-topped dormers and tall brick stacks.

The garden front has seven bays. Three large small-paned sash windows flank a central bowed porch with paired Ionic columns and a balcony above. Large dormers have alternate triangular and segmented pediments. The central feature of the garden front includes a triple window and a segmental pediment above.

The interior remains largely unaltered. The drawing room has plaster-panelled walls and a fireplace with a marble surround. A downstairs corridor has a compartmented ceiling, and an upstairs corridor features a barrel vault. The house was documented by Lawrence Weaver in Small Country Houses of Today, page 115.