Penty Park

Included as a substantial early C18 country house altered c. 1870 but retaining important C18 interiors.

Interiors of front range stripped for dry-rot 2004. S front rooms had C19 character. Dining-room with two windows (centre and left of front) had moulded C19 cornice and rose and marble fireplace. Small room to right. Long SE drawing-room with canted bay at S end and corresponding NE library had later C19 character, the SE room with lattice plaster ceiling and plaster wall panels, the NE room with timber ribs to coved ceiling and marble fireplace. The N hall to E of stair had later C19 boarded panelling. The stair had earlier C18 fielded-panelled dado, square newels, ramped rails and turned balusters. The study to W of the stair retained earlier C18 fielded panelling, in situ 2004: to left on S wall fielded-panelled 6-panel door with broad fanlight and keystone, between fluted pilasters (repeated on hall side). Moulded cornice. W wall panelling, bolection-moulded large panel over fireplace. Cupboard to side. Upstairs the main bedroom had a painted overmantel of an ideal landscape.