Cotswold

This is a Cotswold house, dating from the 18th century. It has group value from its contribution to the area's character. The main facade features decorative timberwork, while the rear and service block are rendered over brick. A concrete tiled roof replicates the original Cotswold stone flags, from which the house takes its name. Axial brick stacks rise from the building, with shafts set diagonally.

The house is arranged around an open hall, which forms a wide, hipped-roofed block to the right and an advanced gable housing the staircase to the left, lit by a three-tier stair window. The gable apex has richly decorated bargeboards and a tie-beam. The hall is illuminated by a four-tier mullioned and transomed window, with decorative leading in all windows. A timber-framed entrance porch with a segmentally arched doorway and foliate decoration to the bargeboards sits alongside the stair gable. To the left of the entrance are the paired, asymmetrical gables of the service range, featuring mullioned windows of one, two, and four lights. The principal rooms are located to the rear, parallel to the hall range, with a projecting wing to the south. A cutaway arched loggia with a secondary entrance is at the south corner of this wing, and a two-storeyed, semi-circular bay window with a conical roof and stone mullioned and transomed windows is set into its return. The rear elevation has a four-window range between the rear wing to the north and a gabled projecting stack to the south. A stone, four-light canted bay window is on the ground floor, with a back door to its right. Leaded lights are present in the windows, predominantly in the upper panes of the larger transomed windows.

The porch opens into an entrance lobby with a mosaic tiled floor. The full-height hall is panelled with oak and includes a fireplace inserted by S. Colwyn Foulkes, featuring a marble surround with wood terms. The staircase, housed in a gabled projection, leads to a gallery above. It has turned balusters, newels with ball finials and undercut, stylised foliate ‘capitals’, and a similar detail is utilized on the principal posts of the gallery. The dining room to the rear has walls partly panelled with architraves to doorways and articulating wider panels covered with leather. A fireplace and overmantle, believed to have originated from Ufford Hall, Suffolk, and likely dating from the late 16th century, are present, featuring poker-work strapwork decoration and flanking, richly detailed cupboards, which may also have been brought in from elsewhere. The fireplace sits within a four-centred stone archway, and has a fireback dated 1633, introduced to the house by S. Colwyn Foulkes.