Llangattock Park House

Llangattock Park House

A mixed Tudor-Gothic style house of two storeys, constructed in coursed sandstone masonry with quoins under slate roofs and stone stacks, with Bath-stone dressings and wide boarded eaves. The building comprises a main north-south range with a polygonal entrance turret to the right, a two-span service wing further right, and two parallel wings behind the main range forming a south-facing garden front.

The entrance front is relatively short, with an external gable stack to the north (right) and a sill band at first floor level. The polygonal turret is located in the angle with the former service wing. At the centre of the range is a wide bay window surmounted by an embattled parapet with a frieze of open quatrefoils. The bay contains a five-light sandstone window with transom, with single lights on the sides. The upper storey has a centrally-placed narrow light flanked by sandstone mullioned two-light casement windows. The eaves are interrupted by a gabled feature above the central light, featuring a shallow arch of voussoirs to its soffit and supported on sandstone brackets. In the north gable end is a narrow first floor window in the external stack, suggesting either that the window is a later insertion or the stack is decorative. To its right is a T-shaped light. The entrance turret has a hipped roof and moulded eaves cornice depicting gargoyles and supported on brackets. To the north-east is a ribbed and studded front door with a four-centred arched head and moulded reveals, positioned below a porch canopy with flat cornice supported on moulded brackets. Above the canopy is a frieze bearing a coat of arms—a shield held by two beasts with an inscription in Latin. The door is flanked by single lights with transoms. The upper storey of the turret has three single lights, one to each visible face of the polygon, though the left one is altered.

The service wing runs to the north as a truncated two-span, three-storey structure rendered under shallow-pitched slate roofs with a brick stack towards the north. The upper storey front window is set under a gable with wide barge boards. Multi-pane wooden casement windows are used throughout. The ground floor front has a high opening under a hoodmould. A twentieth-century range adjoins the north end, forming part of the nursing home. To the rear, the attic storey windows are set under gabled dormers.

The garden front includes the gable end of the north-south range with a smaller gable above the west (left) window. A string course at first floor level sits beneath each gable with carved heads at the ends. In the right gable is a large sandstone tablet with an inscribed shield bearing a coat of arms. The first floor of the garden front comprises five windows (4+1), with mullioned and transomed sandstone windows in the gables, that to the left being a cross window with hoodmould. Between these are three two-light small-paned casement windows with sandstone reveals. The lower storey has a pair of French doors to the right gable, matching the style of the window above. Towards the centre is a bay window to the right and a canted bay window to the left, both of sandstone, transomed and mullioned and surmounted by parapets with lozenge friezes. The canted bay contains French doors. The bay window is fronted by four equally placed columns with capitals supporting finials bearing shields and lions. Between the columns are tall eight-pane sash windows. At the left end of the ground floor is a cross window matching that on the first floor. In the west gable end are a pair of French doors. The parallel range to the rear is shorter than the main structure.

The interior was not inspected at the time of the survey in August 1997.