Description

SO 43 SW TREVILLE CP -

6/85 Whitfield
(formerly listed as
29.9.52 Whitfield House)

GV II

House. C17 origins, enlarged in late C18 and altered in mid-C19. Brick
with stone dressings, Welsh slate and asphalt roofs. Roughly square plan
with main fronts to north and south. Cellars and three storeys. South
elevation has 3:1:3 windows, glazing bar sashes with stone dressings, full-
height three-window bows to each side, continuous moulded stone cornice and
moulded stone string between second and top floors, central entry with four
panelled pilasters supporting entablature above which are the arms of
Henrietta Archer, wife of Edward Clive, glazed door with transom light.
North elevation has closed-well mid-C19 stone staircase to central entry.
Interior has mid-C18 brown and white marble fireplace in principal south-
west room of ground floor and Italian white marble fireplace, possibly mid-
C19, to corresponding room to south-east; late C19 oak dog-leg staircase
leads to Rurdbogenstyl oak gallery with three round-headed openings to
each side supported by piers and attached columns reminiscent of those of
c1600 in barn to north (qv) which lies in Abbey Dore CP. Third floor was
added in mid- to late C19. The house was reduced c1949-53 when mid-C19
additions were demolished; at about the same time the external closed-well
staircase was moved to the north front. The Clive family moved here from
Wormbridge Court, Herefordshire in the 1790s. (BoE, p 319-20; information
supplied by Mr George Clive).

Listing NGR: SO4213833443

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26391906

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]