Temple House And Front Wall And Railings

Temple House, along with its front wall and railings, is a mid-18th century house that has had some 20th-century additions. The house is constructed of mottled pink brick in English bond at the front and English garden wall bond on the sides, topped with a blue slate roof. It stands two storeys high and has three bays, with a rear wing that was further extended around 1980. The facade is symmetrical and features an ashlar sill band at the ground floor, a first-floor band, and a deep cornice beneath a high stone-coped parapet.

The central entrance consists of an 18th-century panelled door set within a stone architrave that has a console cornice above it. This door is flanked by a sash window with glazing bars, which has an exposed sash box and a flat brick arch above. On either side of the entrance, there are Venetian-style windows under brick arches, each featuring a central round-arched sash with glazing bars, intersecting in the head, and flanked by narrow four-pane side-lights. The gables have ashlar coping and brick stacks.

On the right side of the house, there is a wing that is set back, with the left part made of herringbone-tooled stone. This wing has a conservatory added around 1980, which is not of special interest, and it masks a door under a deep lintel with a sash window to the right. Further right, there is a 16-pane sash window, and on the first floor, there is a round-arched sash to the left of two sashes with glazing bars, all of which have exposed sash boxes. There is also a 1980 brick addition at the right end.

Inside, the house features two-panel doors, and in the front right room, there is an iron grate set in an Adam-style wooden fireplace. In front of the house, a low rendered wall supports cast-iron railings that have square-section bars, block finials on the dog-bars, gadrooned urn-style finials on the inner standards and gate, with a gate designed in the same style. The wall returns to the house and ramps up, topped with ashlar coping.