Twyford House Well House Wing House is a Grade II* listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 December 1955. A Georgian House. 3 related planning applications.

Twyford House Well House Wing House

WRENN ID
gilded-pillar-blackthorn
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
South Downs National Park
Country
England
Date first listed
5 December 1955
Type
House
Period
Georgian
Source
Historic England listing

Description

This is a small country house, now divided into three residences. It was originally built in the early 18th century and altered and enlarged in the late 18th and 19th centuries, with further subdivision occurring around 1943. The building is constructed of brick with stone dressings, lead roofing, and old plain tile roofs.

The house is two stories and an attic, set above a cellar, and comprises a double-pile early 19th-century structure. A three-bay section was added to the north end, set back from the main entrance front, and three full-height round bays were added to the garden front. A further octagonal bay was placed on the north end in the late 18th century, followed by three low, two-story service bays to the north and the front, with a 19th-century remodelling of the entrance front.

The entrance front features a central, tall, round-headed door dating to the 19th century, flanked by thin windows between pilasters supporting a pediment. There are three 19th-century, narrow, eight-pane sashes above. Other windows are early 18th century, altered to eight panes, all with segmental rubbed brick arches and stone sills. A moulded brick cornice with stone coping supports a panelled attic parapet punctuated by bulls-eye openings in front of the attic windows. The north additions include a two-story section refenestrated in the 19th century, with three narrow bays set back, a projecting wide bay with a Venetian oriel window, and five narrow bays projecting forward from the two northern bays. A single-story addition is set forward from these, with a brick arch linking it to the 19th-century stable.

The garden front has an eight-bay, two-story and attic main part, with three full-height round bays on a plinth. Openings with gauged brick arches provide light to the cellars. The bays contain three 12-pane original or eight-pane altered sashes on each floor, some with blind boxes. The bays between the round bays contain French windows on the ground floor and sashes above. All openings have rubbed brick arches and stone sills. A moulded cornice with stone copings runs around the bays, topped by a rendered parapet with urns over the center bay. End stacks are present on the original building.

Inside the original part, behind the entrance door, is a 19th-century hall incorporating an 18th-century panelled room with bolection mouldings, a fireplace, and niches. There's a 19th-century replica of a staircase from around 1700, featuring 18th-century dado panelling. Fluted pilasters separate the hall and stairs, and many rooms on the first floor retain panelling from either the 18th or 19th centuries.

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