Listed Building: Islip House, and attached flight of steps, gatepiers and walls (15+16/39)

Shown on Ordnance Survey map as No. 15. Country house. Mid/late C18. Squared coursed limestone with stuccoed facades and Colleyweston and Welsh slate roofs. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys with attic and basement. Main front to garden of 7-window range. Central part-glazed door has moulded wood surround and fanlight with glazing bars. Sash windows with glazing bars. Hipped roof behind plain parapet and 3 flat-topped dormers. Brick and stone stacks at ridge. 2-window-range extension to right, remodelled C20. Entrance front to left of main front is a 5-window range, similar to main front, but with plain sash windows at ground floor. Central panelled double doors have fanlight with glazing bars. Flight of steps with wrought-iron handrail forms a bridge over a basement level walkway. C19 brick extensions to rear. Garden front has attached brick walls to left and right, each pierced with a C20 iron gate with C18 ashlar gatepiers. Interior: staircase to entrance front is probably C18 with turned balusters. Main staircase to garden front has stick balustrade probably altered C20.

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Jul 5 2021 3:54PM