Iscoyd Park

Iscoyd Park is a Georgian country house of two storeys with an attic. It comprises a south-facing entrance range built in 1747 and a parallel rear range (the earlier house) offset to the right. Both ranges are constructed of brick with hipped slate roofs behind parapets and panelled brick stacks. The entrance range features angle pilasters, a plat band, and a double-pile roof. Its symmetrical five-bay front is dominated by a two-storey porch added by 1851, which stands under a pediment with steps leading up between double Tuscan columns beneath a Doric frieze. The two-panel door is framed by a doorcase with a cornice on consoles and is set beneath a round-headed radial-glazed overlight. The first-floor window has an apron of balusters in relief. All windows have flat brick arches with painted keystones and moulded stone sills, with twelve-pane hornless sashes. Three hipped-roof dormers with small-pane windows pierce the roofline.

Set back on the right side, in the angle between the entrance and rear ranges, is a single-storey two-bay dining room added by 1851. It features similar detailing to the entrance range but with taller twelve-pane sash windows and a blind window in the return wall. Three first-floor windows appear in the side wall of the entrance range, with the right-hand window retaining its glazing while the other two are blind with painted glazing bars. Two hipped roof dormers also occupy this side elevation. Behind the dining room, the three-bay rear range contains sash windows matching those of the entrance range.

The left (west) side wall of the entrance range originally comprised four bays. Two bays to the right of centre retain sash windows in original openings, while to the left stands a full-height canted bay window added in 1872–3. This bay has rusticated stone quoins, a moulded stone band between storeys, and a dentil cornice. Its windows feature cambered heads with rusticated voussoirs and white-painted keystones, with fifteen-pane sashes in the lower storey and twelve-pane sashes in the upper storey.

The five-bay rear (north) elevation has a central entrance with a cornice on consoles leading to a replacement glazed door. Above it rises a tall round-headed stair window with small-pane sash. Bays to the right of centre and at the left end have twelve-pane sash windows matching the front, except for a blind lower-storey window in the fourth bay. The bay to the left of centre is occupied by a three-stage polygonal tower with a hipped slate roof, forming the bathroom block added in 1893–4. This tower has rusticated stone quoins and six-pane sash windows.

The rear wing projects beyond the tower. Its west garden front comprises one bay set forward slightly on the left (the library bay, probably a late eighteenth-century addition to the early eighteenth-century house) and three further bays. The library bay features a triple segmental-headed window in a rusticated surround with cornice in its lower storey, and a Venetian window in a moulded architrave with plain brick apron in the upper storey. The narrower bays beyond have twelve-pane sash windows in the lower storey, and nine-pane sashes in the middle storey and attic. The rear wall of the rear range, also facing the garden, displays a blocked round-headed arch in the lower storey, a twelve-pane sash window left of centre, an external stack, and a one-storey projection.

The opposite side wall of the rear wing faces the service yard on the east side of the house. The library bay on the right is bow-fronted and rendered, with two round-headed first-floor small-pane sash windows. A three-window range follows to the left, with an entrance featuring a panelled door and segmental-headed sash windows to its right. Beyond the projecting service yard buildings and wall stands a segmental-headed window with replacement glazing. The middle storey contains three nine-pane sash windows and a small two-pane window at the left end, while the attic has twelve-pane hornless sash windows unevenly placed.

A service range projects from the left of centre in three sections. The first two-storey section has two stone-surrounded windows in the lower storey and a casement in the upper storey. The lower middle section features a panel door on the right, then a shuttered opening, boarded door, eight-pane horizontal-sliding sash window, and fixed window to the end. The higher game larder stands under a hipped roof on wide plastered eaves, its upper section supported on iron bars and infilled with renewed metal gauze, with a half-glazed door.

Internally, the entrance range has a double-depth plan. A central entrance hall leads through a round-headed moulded arch with keystone to the staircase. The open-well staircase features turned balusters and a newel of clustered balusters. The rooms flanking the entrance hall have neo-classical plaster cornices, and the room on the right contains a neo-classical fireplace. The dining room further right retains a rococo fireplace brought from elsewhere.

The rear range contains a nineteenth-century open-well stair with an ornate Jacobean-style balustrade. The principal room is the first-floor library, which features doorcases with broken pediments, panelled wainscot, and a bracketed ceiling cornice. Its outstanding feature is an ornate rococo fireplace.

The game larder preserves a plastered interior and a slate slab used for butchering meat.