Listed Building: Salcey Lawn (2/59)

Country house. Late C17 with C18 and C20 alterations. Coursed limestone rubble, hipped slate roof, brick internal stacks. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys, basement and attic; 5-window range. Central C20 glazed door approached by 5 moulded stone steps from stone terrace in front of basement. 18-pane sash windows to ground floor, 12-pane sashes to 1st floor, all with wood lintels. 2-light casement windows to basement with wood lintels and 3 roof dormers. Ironstone quoins and bracketed wood eaves. Central door to rear at basement level. Interior has two Tudor-arched stone fireplaces with ornamental carved spandrels and strapwork, one with oak surround and overmantel with perspective panels and terms. Dog-leg staircase from ground floor to attic with square newel posts and barley sugar balusters. Panelled dado and some fielded panelling in upper room. Basement has former kitchen with large blocked open fireplace with massive bressumer and ogee-stop-chamfered spine beam; brick tunnel-vaulted wine cellar. Large C18 additions to rear have been demolished. Formerly the seat of a younger branch of the Fitzroy family.

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Jul 5 2021 11:34AM