Lovett House And Wall Attached To Rear

Lovett House, along with an attached wall, dates to the early 18th century, though a worn stone plaque on the front suggests a possible foundation date of 1724 (according to Pevsner and the Victoria County History). It may have been designed by Thomas Harris of Cublington. The house is constructed of red and vitreous brick, with red brick quoins, window surrounds, a first-floor band course, and moulded eaves. It has a tiled roof with brick coped gables and brick chimneys to the gables and between bays six and seven.

The building is two storeys and an attic, with nine bays. The main floors feature leaded cross casements; ground-floor windows have gauged brick heads, while first-floor windows have moulded brick lintels. Four hipped dormers with paired leaded casements light the attic. A blocked basement window is located to the left of centre. The entrances in bays three and seven have six-panelled doors with rectangular fanlights, each sheltered by a moulded segmental hood supported on carved scroll brackets; the right-hand hood has been slightly altered. Stone plaques are positioned below the central first-floor window and within a chamfered brick surround in the left gable end.

The rear elevation is more irregular and features similar windows with gauged segmental heads, some of which are blocked. A gable above an eaves cornice is present in the bay to the right of centre, alongside a staircase window.

The interior includes a fine early 18th-century staircase with twisted balusters, a moulded handrail, and square newel posts with pendent finials. Small stone fireplaces and stop-chamfered spine beams are also present. A room on the ground floor, to the right, may have originally served as the schoolroom.

Attached to the northwest corner is a short length of red brick wall with blue brick diaperwork and semi-circular coping.