Fircroft

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SE 44 NE HEALAUGH WIGHILL LANE

453-/4/10000 Fircroft

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Small country house, now home for the elderly. 1894 with C20 alterations. Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and slate roof. 7 stone stacks and ashlar coped gables with kneelers and ball finials. Neo-Tudor style. Cill bands and first floor band. 2 storey plus attics. Ashlar cross mullion windows with plain sashes, and mullion windows to attics. Entrance front, 4 windows. Slightly projecting gabled centre, with a projecting porch to left with a large 4 centred arched opening with plaque above. To left a 3-light window with single light canted corner, above a 2-light and a 3 light window. To the left a 3-light half canted bay window. Set back to right a 3 light window with 2 light window above. North front, 6 windows. Off centre gabled projection with a single 5-light window, above 3-light window and in the gable a 3-light window. Set back to left 3 single light windows and above two 2-light windows. Beyond a gabled projection, with 2-light windows and above a 4-light oriel window and in the gable a 2-light window. Set back to the right 2 single light windows with a 3-light window above. Beyond a gabled projection with a 3-light window, above a smaller similar window and in the gable a 2-light window. South front has a recessed centre with a large 6-light stair window. Beyond to the right a gabled projection with a 2 storey canted bay window and in the gable a 3 light window. To the left a 3 storey narrow gabled projection with a single storey service wing set back beyond. INTERIOR: Large entrance/staircase hall with glazed entrance screen and front door with stained glass. Panelled wainscoting. Segmental arched recess and 2 similar entrance arches with pairs of wooden brackets supporting coffered ceilings. 2 flight staircase with bulbous turned balusters and square newels, leading to galleried landing with similar balustrade supported on wooden 4-centred arches with ornate columns. Large 18-light stair window with stained glass. Dining room has panelled dado,embossed frieze and wooden panelled ceiling. Buffet alcove with coffered ceiling and built-in buffet columned top, matching wooden fire surround with similar columned over-mantle. Drawing room, to left of entrance, has yellow and white marble fireplace, to right of entrance, has grey marble fireplace and dado rail. Wooden door surrounds and panel doors throughout.

Listing NGR: SE4846844074