Pavilion

Boundary Wall And Gatepier, Including Garden Pavilion, East And West Langlands, Sunnyhill Road

This picturesque villa dates from the later 19th century with earlier-20th-century and later additions. Now subdivided into two properties (East Langlands and West Langlands since 1954), it is a large 2-storey building with attic, arranged in an L-plan. The design combines eclectic Gothic and Tudor detailing, featuring deep bracketed and bargeboarded eaves to a multi-gabled roof.

The building is constructed in squared yellow sandstone, bull-faced to the front and sides and tooled to the rear, with polished ashlar dressings and chamfered margins. A base course and 1st-floor string course run across the elevations. Stop-chamfered angles mark the ground floor. Windows are irregular in arrangement, predominantly Tudor-arched and multi-light with stop-chamfered mullions and hoodmoulds.

The south (front) elevation comprises three bays. A gabled central bay contains a 9-panel timber front door with point-arched mouldings and fanlight within a colonnetted, hoodmoulded architrave, flanked by squat ball-finialled piers and trefoil-headed windows. A bipartite hoodmoulded window sits at 1st-floor level, with a basket-arched window in the gable apex. To the left is a canted, gabled bay with tripartite windows at ground and 1st floors and a trefoil window in the apex of a squinched gable. The slightly recessed right bay has a tripartite hoodmoulded window at ground floor, a bipartite window surmounted by a gable breaking the eaves at 1st floor, and a tripartite piend-roofed dormer to the attic.

The west elevation displays two bays with gabled 1st-floor windows and a tripartite bow window at ground to the left. A 20th-century extension and a 1998 conservatory occupy the outer left.

The north (rear) elevation features a projecting single-storey gabled service wing to the left; a central 3-storey piended platform-roofed tower with a corbelled, piend-roofed oriel breaking the eaves; and a tall tripartite stained-glass stair window surmounted by a gable to the right. An earlier-20th-century flat-roofed extension extends to the outer right.

The east elevation is irregularly fenestrated, with a timber-boarded door to a projecting gabled secondary porch to the right.

Predominantly plate glass fills the timber sash-and-case windows to the south and west elevations, while 4-pane glazing appears in timber sash-and-case windows elsewhere. The roof is covered in grey slate. Tall stop-chamfered coped ashlar chimney stacks feature decorative square buff clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods serve the building.

Interior spaces were divided between East Langlands and West Langlands in 1954. The main porch contains geometric Gothic Revival floor tiles and a timber-panelled inner door with etched glazing and fanlight, flanked by slim round-headed windows in a colonnetted timber architrave. Throughout the interiors are 6-panel timber doors. The principal ground-floor rooms retain some original decorative plasterwork and panelling; the former drawing room has earlier-20th-century cornicing, while the former library displays Art Deco figurative relief panels. An elaborate giant ceiling rose decorates the former billiard room on the 3rd floor of the tower; plain moulded cornices appear elsewhere. Some marble chimneypieces remain, along with timber panelling, shutters, and timber boarding around windows. A timber scale-and-platt principal stair features turned balusters and square newels.

The garden pavilion is a hexagonal structure raised on a stone base with plain supporting pilasters and entablature. Multi-pane glazing in metal frames is enclosed beneath a gently bell-cast pavilion roof.

The boundary wall comprises random rubble to the south, with a roughly squared bull-faced rubble section and curved ashlar cope adjoining the gatepier.

The gatepier is the westernmost of a pair of square-plan yellow sandstone structures with plinth, panelled shaft, and an overhanging gabletted, pinnacled pyramidal cap with cusped cornice. The eastern pier belongs to Langlands Lodge.