Lufton Manor House

ST51NW BRYMPTON D'EVERCY CP LUFTON 3/29 Lufton Manor House - GV II Large detached house. Dated 1900. Red brick stretcher bond, suggesting early use of cavity walling, with Ham stone dressings; hipped Welsh slate roofs; brick chimney stacks with moulded stone caps. In a Queen Anne style: H-plan 2 storeys, 9-bay east elevation, of which bays 1, 2, 8 and 9 are the projecting crosswings. Brick plinth, stone band course between floors, and stone rusticated quoins, timber dentilled cornice with secret gutter: sash windows with flush fitting moulded boxes, 8-pane to outer bays; windows to bays 3-7 irregular, and generally set lower, in a small flat roofed section spanning between projecting bays which has parapet with moulded stone coping, with smaller sashes and one circular window flanking the stone faced central bay, which has, above, a 3-light stone mullioned window, rectangular leaded, under a cornice and broken segmental pediment with ball finials to centre and end, on parapet plinths; below a projecting porch with rusticated quoins, open pediment screening pitched lead sheet roof, having semi-circular outer arch with architrave, impost blocks and triple keystone, glazed inner doors. Lower wing to north-east. West garden front of 7 bays to match, again bays 1, 2, 6 and 7 projecting: 12-pane sash windows to both levels, with Doric colonnade loggia of single storey spanning between projection. Interior not seen.

Listing NGR: ST5194617016