Listed Building: The Bury House (13/34)

Country house. Late C17, mid C18 and mid C19. Squared coursed limestone and ironstone with ashlar facades and Swithland slate roofs. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys. Main front of 5-window range with flanking 2 bays breaking forward. Central 6-panel double doors with moulded stone architraves. Sash windows, reducing at second floor, all with glazing bars and moulded stone architraves. Some second floor windows are blind. Plain eaves parapet and hipped roofs. Brick and stone stacks at ridge and end. Elevation set back to left of main front is probably early C18 and has C19 casements with glazing bars and C19 lean-to porch. Garden front to right of main front is 4-window range similar to main front. Rear elevation has early C18 gable with banded ironstone and limestone and similar gabled staircase projection adjacent. Interior: panelled hall probably early C19 with bolection moulded stone fireplace. C18 eight-panelled doors with bolection moulded surrounds. Panelled window reveals. Drawing room has reset C18 marble fireplace with detailed columns. Late C17 staircase with turned balusters and quarter-landing and mid C19 staircase around open well.

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Dec 9 2021 10:41AM