Description

CASTLE DONINGTON BONDGATE
SK 4427-4527
9/41 No 102 (Crown House)
7.12.62
II
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House. Dated 1818 on brick. Whitewashed stucco with slate roof, flanking
rendered chimneys and fine stucco ornament. 2-storey front, 3-storey rear, 2
bays. Front has first floor sill band, painted black, and moulded stucco eaves
with frieze of fret-type design. 4-pane sash windows with black-painted stucco
hoodmould. Lower hoods are Tudor. Central 6-panelled door in stucco surround
with moulded ogee arch, crockets, finial and triple-shafted jambs. In tympanum
is a stucco relief of rich radiating foliage over a Greek fret frieze. Inside,
the front rooms also have good plaster ornament. Ground floor left room has
richly moulded ceiling cornice with frieze of urns, richly foliated ceiling
rose, and pair of arched alcoves with daisy motifs to architrave surround. Room
to ground floor right has fine ceiling cornice with beaded ornament. Home of
the Sutton family, master plasterers, of whom John Sutton worked on plasterwork
at Donington Hall (qv).

Listing NGR: SK4472027634

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26336216

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