Wykeham Abbey

SE 98 SE WYKEHAM BACK LANE (east side, off)

8/123 Wykeham Abbey 13.12.51 GV II*

Incorrectly shown on Ordnance Survey map as Hudgin Lane. Country house. Mid C18; extended 1835 on datestone; loggia added 1839; further alteration and extension 1904. For the Langley family. Dressed sandstone and reused tooled medieval sandstone; ashlar quoins and dressings; timber eaves band; Westmorland slate roof. Entrance front: C18 front of 3 storeys, 6 bays, the 4 centre bays pedimented and quoined and breaking forward; flanked by 3- storey, 2-bay C19 extension wings and further 2-storey, 3-bay ranges. Single-storey, 5-bay service wings project to left and right, joined to the main front and ranges by 2-storey link bays. Extension wings have rusticated pilasters. Single-storey canted porch added to centre of C18 front contains half-glazed double doors beneath a patterned fanlight within a pedimented and rusticated Doric door-case. Ground-floor end bays to C18 front are formed as aedicules. Ground- and first-floor windows are 12-pane sashes, those to second floor unequal 9-pane sashes, all in raised, keyed surrounds. Keyed oeil-de-boeuf to main pediment. Modillion cornice. Attached Doric colonnade to ground floor of 2-storey ranges, and projecting eaves cornice with plain parapet above. Service wing to left has 6-panel door with Gibbs surround to centre; both wings have triple-keyed window surround, and domed cupolas with wrought-iron weather-vanes. Coped gables to main roof, with end and centre left and right stacks. Half-hipped roofs to wings, all roofed separately. Garden front. 3-storey, 9-bay front arranged 2:1:3:1:2, with central 5-bay breakforward incorporating full- height 3-window bow; single-storey 4-bay wings added to left and right. Glazed doors to recessed bays. 12-pane sashes to ground and first floors, and unequal 9-pane sashes to second floor. All openings have plain keyed surrounds. Doric loggia to ground floor, dated 1839, carries first-floor balcony with balustrade and urns. Modillion cornice with plain parapet above. Extension wings have canted bays with radial-glazed sashes in raised round-arched surrounds. Plain parapet with urns above. Half-hexagonal roof. Left and right return fronts. Venetian windows to first and second floor, with an oculus to each gable end. Interior. Ground-floor centre room on garden side has Ionic fireplace with fluted column jambs and moulded frieze. Panelled ceiling of moulded plaster. Room to left has a screen of fluted Corinthian columns and a dentilled cornice extending around the room.

Listing NGR: SE9618281914