Springfield

Springfield is a late 18th century house with a cellar, two storeys and a lower two-storey wing. The main house has three bays, while the wings each have one bay. The main house and wings are clad in drydash render, with a close-eaved imitation-slate roof and painted rendered end stacks. The main house has renewed 12-pane sash windows with concrete sills. The central entrance has a flight of seven steps with rendered side walls, leading to a late Georgian style timber doorcase featuring reeded pilasters, a deep entablature with rosettes in the frieze, dentils, and a corniced hood. The entrance door is six-panelled, with the top four panels having quadrant-curved angles, and the bottom two featuring a reeded border and angle blocks, above a three-pane overlight.

The wings have been rewindowed with late 20th century casements – triple casements to the first floor on both sides and the ground floor on the right. The ground floor on the left of the wings incorporates a very wide and bowed six-light window with top lights. The northwest wing was originally a coach-house, with an entry on the end wall; it has a tilting window to the left of the doors and a similar window to the first floor.

Photographs taken in 1981 show that the southeast wing had a ground floor casement to the right and a 12-pane sash to the left, with a similar small sash to the first floor left, alongside a mock sash. The northwest wing had a 12-pane sash to the ground floor and two false sashes on the first floor. The west gable end was slate hung at that time.

The rear wall facing Rocky Park is roughcast and has a large 20th century first floor centre window.

Inside, the entrance hall features 6-panel doors and a cornice with flat mutules, each with a sunk roundel. The staircase has square balusters, bulbous column newels, and a closed string. A room to the left has a reeded cornice with rosettes, panelled shutters, and a 19th century chimneypiece made of fossil marble. A four-panel door leads into the east wing. A west-facing room has an undercut leaf cornice and a scrolled ceiling border, alongside a 19th century grey marble chimneypiece and panelled shutters.

A broad cellar lies beneath the main house, accessible via a six-panel door and a steep flight of 11 steps. The cellar has a broad stone barrel vaulted roof, divided by a wall with an oak lintel over the doorway. Recesses are present on the north wall, constructed with stone voussoirs. An entry to the coach house is located in the west wall, leading to a brick-floored space in the basement of the west wing. An arched recess is to the left of the door to the cellar. There are six steps up on the south side to a narrow, half-vaulted passage along the back wall, ending in a door with stone voussoirs. A remnant of slate hanging is visible, indicating that the house has been built out to the rear.