Mount Tabor House

Mount Tabor House is a school, originally a mansion known as Wingrave Manor House, built around 1870-80. It was likely constructed for the Rothschilds and later leased to the Stewart Freeman family. The house is built of red brick to the ground floor, with half-timbering featuring whitewashed roughcast infill above. It has a tiled roof, incorporating some fishscale patterning, and brick chimneys with pilasters. The overall style is picturesque. The main part of the house is two storeys high, with two bays projecting to the left and a wider bay set back to the right. The left bays have jettied first floors and overhanging upper gables with deep coves and cut brackets. These bays feature irregular leaded casement windows with moulded wooden mullions and transoms. The right bay of the projection has a porch with a large wooden shell hood supported by carved scroll brackets over the door. A tile-hung spire sits above this bay. The bay set back to the right has similar casements, set within a wooden surround with panelled pilasters, a cornice hood on brackets, and large scroll brackets to the sides. Gabled return walls incorporate canted and oriel windows. A service wing extends to the left, featuring a three-storey end block, and another range at right angles to the rear. Inside, the hall has wooden panelling, depressed arches on fluted Corinthian pilasters, a Jacobethan carved wooden fireplace, and a staircase with 18th-century-style turned wooden balusters and Doric column newel posts. A large room on the ground floor has walls with moulded panel motifs and an entablature, a heavily embossed ceiling paper, and elaborate doorcases featuring entablatures on fluted Corinthian columns. The room also has a similar surround to the bay window and fireplace; the latter includes an elaborate plaster over-mantel and a fan motif to the ceiling.