Description

In the entry for:
HURLEY Rose Lane
5/20 (West side, off)

Rosehill

The description shall be amended to read:

Medium sized country house in landscaped grounds. c1885. Pobably by Ernest
George and Harold Peto. Mostly red brick with some render, red tile roofs.
In the Norman Shaw Old English style. Long rectangular plan with angled
gabled projections on north. Main house 2 storeys and attics with the service
wing mostly 2 storeys. Entrance front of 6 bays with further 3 bays to left.
Two, three and four light leaded casement windows in white painted wood
frames, mostly with transoms. The third bay has a four light 2 transom stair
window over a projecting porch, the fifth bay has a 2 storey rectangular 4
light mullion and transom bay, the sixth bay has a single storey similar bay,
this last may be an alteration. Paired gables over bays 2-5 containing a
continous window of 7.7 lights the centre light of each with arched head, an
Ipswich window variant. Tall moulded chimneys with cornices and modern clay
pots. Service wing to left has one 5 light mullion and transom window, a 2
light modern casement, a 3 light one with above two 2 light mullion and
transom windows and a 3 light oriel similar. Small gable with 3 light window.
East front has a rebuilt 3 bay Tuscan Loggia with French doors behind. Double
gable with two 3 light windows with arched central heads. Projecting 3 storey
canted corner bay; 4 light windows with sidelights. North front has central
double gable over 2 storey bay with 5 light window, and a single storey bay
with a 6 light window, both with sidelights. Kitchen court on west with
original fenestration and effective chimneys and roofscape. Interior is
little altered but very restrained. The chief feature is the stairhall of
Jacobean character with close beamed ceiling, triple arched screen to closed
string stair and an introduced but in - character fireplace.

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SU 88 SW HURLEY ROSE LANE
(west side, off)

5/20 Rosehill

II

Large country house, in landscaped surrounds. c1900. Mostly brick, part painted render.
Tile gabled roofs. Long rectangular plan with angled, gabled projections on north.
Part 2 storeys, part 2 storeys with attics. Several large chimneys with cornices and
clay pots. Moulded eaves cornice. Casement windows with centre light on attic floors
having an arched head. Other floors have mullioned and transomed windows. Entrance
(south) front: irregular. Principal features are a double-gabled attic floor to left of
centre with projecting entrance bay below, large window on first floor, plain entrance
door below. Smaller and lower service extension on left end. East front: 2 bays.
Similar double gable on attic floor. Flat-roofed pergola on ground of 3 bays with wooden
columns with moulded bases and capitals; balustrade at ends.

Listing NGR: SU8038982690

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26411061

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