Orielton Field Centre

Orielton Field Centre is a three-storey and basement mansion built in the 18th century, faced with painted stucco. It retains a 20th-century timber cornice that conceals a low roof. The design is plain, with minimal detailing, featuring angle pilasters, sill bands, and an eaves band. The windows are predominantly 8-pane, with longer windows on the ground floor, shorter above, and camber-headed upper floor windows.

The east front, now an eight-bay arrangement, has a large central porch and 16-paned basement windows. Previously, matching porches were linked by a three-bay tent verandah, which has since been removed. The west garden front is a long, unrelieved eleven-bay expanse. Photographs reveal a now-lost array of prominent chimney stacks that disappeared by 1911. The north end contains a service entrance rising four storeys, while the south end presents a four-bay front with arcaded main floors, supported by plain half-round piers, and is believed to have originally been an internal orangery. The windows here are tripartite, with wide fanlights on the first floor, and 20th-century ground-floor windows or blank openings, along with a tall garden door featuring a fanlight. Carved painted Owen arms are displayed between the upper windows, and armorial hoppers adorn two downpipes.

The porch on the east front is corniced with Roman Doric columns, which are unusually paired in depth, and pilaster responds. It contains fine, half-glazed doors from the early 19th century, complemented by a large rectangular overlight with barbed radiating metal bars and some coloured glass.

Inside, a remarkable full-height stair hall showcases an open-well, cantilevered stone staircase in the French Empire style, rising through the full height of the building. The staircase features iron balusters and a reeded rail. Moulded cornices adorn the landing soffits and ceiling, which also features a central rose. Six-panel doors are throughout. Three principal rooms remain on the west front. The three-window northeast room has a dark marble fireplace with an acanthus cornice, a vine-trail border, and a centre rose with radiating trails. The central, three-window room boasts fine plasterwork, an acanthus cornice, a coved border, and anthemion scrolls in the ceiling corners, with a central piece featuring radiating trails. It also has a white marble fireplace on the east wall, double doors at each end, and panelled shutters. The southeast room, with two windows, has a marble fireplace with reeded panels, a similar moulded cornice, a ceiling border, and a central motif.

The basement reveals evidence of several building periods, including a thick spine wall, oak beams, and one room with a simple ceiling decoration of circles and quadrants, possibly dating back to the late 17th century. There are also various fielded panelled doors and shutters.