Description

SE13NE BAILDON HOYLE COURT ROAD
SE16493 (north side)

7/15 Hoyle Court

II

Mill owner's large house, now Masonic Lodge. Initialled and dated
" E. B. 1912 ". Snecked dressed rubble with ashlar dressings, hammer-
dressed stone to rear, stone slate roof. Edwardian Baroque style.
2½ storeys. South front: symmetrical facade, U-shaped with projecting
wings. 11 bays to ground floor, 5 bays of windows to 1st floor. Wings
have quoins and 2 ground-floor windows with architrave, keystone,
projecting sill and apron. Above and set between is 3-light window
with broken pediment set over central light which has apron under with
carved bracket. Shaped gabled dormer with keyed oculus and carved
bracket. Hipped roof with lateral stack to both wings. Slightly set-
back hall range has 3 ground-floor windows either side of doorway with
Gibbs surround and triple-keystone. 1st floor has 3 windows of 3 lights
the central one with broken triangular pediment flanked by broken
segmental pedimented windows. Parapet with Lombard frieze rising to
central feature with carved urn. Original dormer windows with hips.
Hipped roof with 3 stacks with alternate raised and flush quoined angles.
Rear has main feature of porch with elaborate doorcase with triple
keystone, Ionic pilasters with raised blocks, architrave, pulvinated
frieze, cornice and open triangular pediment, parapet surmounted by
carved urn. Set back lst-floor window has broken segmental pediment
with keyed oculus above, shaped gable flanking piers with brackets.

Interior: Stair-hall has fine closed-string open-well staircase with
wreathed and ramped handrail, fluted newels with Corinthian capitals
and alternate fluted and twist balusters, 2 to each riser, with brackets.
Opposite doorways have flanking Doric pilasters the doorcase with
architrave and console keystone. Plaster cornice with egg-and-dart
moulding. Walls have large rectangular panels. 2 main reception rooms,
now opened into one room, have moulded cornices; the northernmost room
has heavy modillioned cornice and egg-and-dart moulding, fluted pilasters
flanking large double doors of 2 panels; the other has dado-rail with
Vitruvian scroll decoration, dentil cornice with foliage enrichment
with palmette and urns. A 3rd room has fine doorcases with stepped
architrave, pulvinated frieze decorated with egg-and-dart moulding
and cyma-moulded cornice. Richly decorated fireplace has carved
Bacchanalian scene with cherubs and donkey, the sides decorated with
carved devils' heads and fruit and foliage, modillioned cornice,
marbled surround with original iron grate the apron fretted with Greek
Key ornament, carved overmantel with a copy of the original painting.

Listing NGR: SE1647039335

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26426347

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)