Wyndcliffe Court

Wyndcliffe Court is a two-storey house with attic, built of coursed squared quarry-faced red sandstone rubble quarried on the site, with stone slate roofs. It was designed in a straightforward Jacobean and Arts-and-Crafts manner, with the entrance elevation facing north and the principal garden elevation facing south, arranged in an E-plan with cross gables.

The north elevation presents three unequal gables. The left gable is the service end, finished plainly without coping or finials, and contains a single-storey L-shaped wing with woodshed and storehouse adjoining the kitchen gable, which has two small paned casements below and one above. A connecting piece follows, with a window below and blind above. The first main bay has a large and small window on each floor, plus a tripartite flat-topped dormer in the attic. The entrance gable is set slightly forward and contains a doorway with moulded architrave and a large shell hood, flanked by two small 2-light casements with a 5-light casement above. This gable is coped with ball finials at the kneelers and apex and a small oculus. The next bay has its ground floor aligned with the gables while the upper floor is set back; it features a 4-light window with balustrade above, two 2-light windows above this, and a 3-light attic dormer. The end gabled bay has a 3-light 2-transomed stair window, with a 2-light casement above and below to the right. The east gable end is plain; the west gable end has a canted stone oriel on the first floor.

The south elevation displays a balanced centrepiece with unequal wings. The left recessed wing has a 2-light casement on each floor and two flue stacks with diamond-set flues. The centrepiece comprises five bays with cross-framed casements to the returns of the left gable. The outer bays are gabled with coped gables, ball finials at apex and kneelers, and 3-light mullion-and-transom windows to each floor with an oculus in the attic. The centrepiece projects forward and contains a 4-light 2-transom window on the ground floor and a 4-light mullion-and-transom window above, both set within an arched recess which rises to support a decorated segmental pediment, a Jacobean feature. This centrepiece is flanked by 3-light windows with transom on the ground floor. Two stacks with star-clustered flues sit on the ridge. The right-hand gable matches the left but without windows on the left return; the outer return has French casements opening to a balustraded balcony over a 2-bay arched loggia. The service wing contains an additional stack and eaves gables with further mullion-and-transom windows.

The principal ground-floor room is the Oak Room, occupying four bays of the centrepiece on the garden side. It is lined with elaborate Jacobean-style oak panelling featuring Ionic pilasters to the main opening between room sections and scalloped heads to doors and niches. The room contains two stone fireplaces with Ionic oak surrounds and a high-relief plaster ceiling of vines and roses intertwined, with additional decoration to the cross beams; the plasterwork was executed by Kebles. The staircase is a plain closed-string type with turned balusters and fircone finials to the newel posts. The house retains much of its original plumbing and electrical fittings and switches.