Tetton House And Terrace To Garden On South Front

Tetton House is a country house built around 1790 and significantly enlarged and mainly rebuilt between 1924 and 1926 by H.S. Goodhart-Rendel for H.M. Herbert. The house is rendered over rubble with a stone roof behind shaped parapets and features a brick stack. The entrance is located on the east front, leading into a Georgian house that has been expanded around a courtyard, with a colonnaded south front and a west front that includes semicircular bays.

The west front, which retains much of its original character, consists of two storeys with an attic and a semi-basement in the left bay. The outer bays are adorned with dentil-moulded cornices and thermal windows, flanking a hipped roof that has six semicircular-headed dormer windows. The first floor features full-height outer semicircular bays with a parapet that sweeps up at the center, three 12-pane sash windows in the outer bays, and circular windows flanking a lead-roofed three-light bay supported by half-draped caryatids. The ground floor has a 15-pane sash window in the right bay, a 9-pane sash window above the semi-basement on the left, and a central lead-roofed semicircular bay with paired pilasters and tripartite sash windows, along with a sash window and a small window on the left and a French window on the right.

The south front comprises nine bays with a pedimented center and a single-storey colonnade of fluted Doric columns. The entrance on the east front features a pedimented porch with a six-panel raised and fielded door and sidelights. Inside, there is an austere interpretation of Palladian detailing in the courtyard, a dramatic stair hall with ashlar fronting and deeply recessed soffits, two fine imported 18th-century marble fireplaces in the south front rooms, which are now combined into one room, and classical plasterwork details in the library on the west front.