Denham Court

TQ 08 NE DENHAM DENHAM COURT

6/306 Denham Court

23.9.55 II

Early and late C18 country house with C19 alterations. Main garden front late C18, brown brick with red gauged brick window heads and stone bands and cornice. Slate roof behind parapet. Three storey centre section 2:3:2 windows, the centre three window section recessed. Stone band at 2nd floor level and 1st floor level of centre 3 windows only. Pedimented doorcase with fluted frieze behind large C19 painted Roman Doric porch. 2 storey wings each side, each a large 3 window bow. Glazing bar sashes survive in wings and upper floor of centre. East front is similar, 2 storeys, 1:3:1 windows, the centre 3 windows a broad shallow bow with tripartite cambered head ground floor sashes and sash windows above. The ends have blank 1st floor windows and round arched doorway below with moulded impost and keystone. Overhanging eaves with panelled soffit. The North front is early C18 red brick now painted, with hipped slate roof. 2 storey and attic, 3 window range of sash windows with gauged brick heads. Stone cornice. Doorway with gauged brick jambs. C19 painted Roman Doric porch. To each side C18 and C19 service additions. The West side service range has a C18 brick West front, 2 storey, 10 window range, with floor band and nogged brick eaves. Small 1st floor and larger ground floor windows with gauged brick heads, one ground floor Venetian window. Interior has 2 ground floor early C18 rooms, one with some panels containing sporting and other paintings, the other with a marble fireplace and an overdoor with landscape paintings. C19 staircase. RCHM 1, p116; VCH III, 256.

Listing NGR: TQ0508086801