Denbie House

Denbie House is an early 19th century country house, featuring a piend-roofed tripartite plan. It has a classical design with two storeys and five bays. The house underwent substantial additions in the late 18th century, which doubled its size, and a further mid-19th century rear wing that is rendered and lined to resemble ashlar, complete with ashlar dressings and rustication.

On the south elevation, the inner three bays are grouped together, showcasing a central doorway that is lugged bolection-moulded and topped with a steep-pitched pediment supported by engaged Doric columns. A marriage stone is set in the tympanum above the doorway. The windows feature rusticated long and short worked dressings, flat heads, and quoins, with rustication extending into the reveals. The house has a moulded base course and cornice that continue along the side elevations, along with a string course at the first-floor cill level. The two-bay flanks have chamfered window reveals. Throughout the house, sash windows are present, featuring a 12-pane glazing pattern. The steep, piended slate roof has a slight bell-cast and includes two close-spaced margined and corniced small ridge stacks that are set transversely.

Inside, much of the original bolection-moulded timber panelling remains on both the ground and first floors, accompanied by moulded entablatures. The stone bolection-moulded fireplaces have timber chimneypieces and double lugged architraves.

The additions to the house, which were made at two different periods, now create a roughly L-shaped plan at the rear. These additions are undistinguished, although there is a single deeply-recessed south-facing bay that is detailed sympathetically. The interior features a cantilevered stair that belongs to the late 18th century extension.