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

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.