Orielton Field Centre

Three-storey and basement plain mansion in painted stucco with C20 timber cornice concealing low roof. Minimal detailing, angle pilasters, sill bands and eaves band; the windows all 8-pane, long to ground floor, shorter above and camber-headed to upper floor. East entrance front is now of eight bays with large porch in centre, and 16-paned basement windows below. [Formerly there were two matching porches linked by a 3-bay tent verandah.] W garden front is an unrelieved 11-bays wide. Older photographs show a prominent array of chimney stacks lost since 1911. N end service entrance rises a full four storeys. S end has 4-bay front with arcaded main floors, with plain half round piers, said to have been an internal orangery. Tripartite windows with wide fanlights to first floor, C20 ground-floor windows or blank openings and tall garden door with fanlight. Carved painted Owen arms between upper windows and armorial hoppers to two downpipes.

E front porch is corniced with Roman Doric columns oddly paired in depth, and pilaster responds. Fine half-glazed early C19 doors and big rectangular overlight with barbed radiating metal bars and some coloured glass.

Exceptional full-height stair hall with open-well cantilevered stone staircase in French Empire style rising full-height, iron balusters and reeded rail. Moulded cornices to landing soffits and top ceiling, with centre rose. 6-panel doors. Three principal surviving rooms on W front. 3-window NE room with dark marble fireplace, acanthus cornice and vine-trail border, centre rose with radiating trails. 3-window centre room with fine plasterwork, acanthus cornice, coved border and anthemion scrolls in ceiling corners. Centrepiece with radiating trails. White marble E wall fireplace. Double doors each end and panelled shutters. 2-window SE room has marble fireplace with reeded panels, similar moulded cornice, ceiling border and centre motif.

Basement has indications of various building periods, thick spine wall, oak beams and one room with simple ceiling decoration of circle and quadrants, possibly late C17, also various fielded panelled doors and shutters.