Description

TR 0446 0546 WYE HARVILLE ROAD
(north side)

8/247 Spring Grove
13.10.52 and walled garden
attached
(formerly listed
as William Wells
Hall)

GV II*

House, now school. Mid C16, refaced and extended 1674 for Thomas Brett
senior. Timber framed and clad and extended with red brick in Irregular
English bond, with plain tiled front. Two storeys, basement and attic
with parapet to hipped roof with 2 recessed dormers and stacks to left
and rear right. Regular fenestration of 6 glazing bar sashes on each
floor, taller on ground floor. Glazed door to right return in glazed
porch with Tuscan columns, and paired glazing bar sashes on both floors
over. Dovecot attached to right return. Left return with C19 cast iron
and valanced verandah and conservatory. Extensive wings to rear, C18 to
C20. Interior: early C17 open well stair with moulded hand rail and finial
and pendant newels and large turned balustrades with identical landing
balustrade. Late C17 panelled room with dado panels, rail and infill all
with beaded mouldings, with pulvinated frieze. Bolection moulded wooden
fireplace with 2 pilasters to overmantel. Late C18 cast iron fire grate
with Neo-Classical motifs; contemporary fire place and surround and
fittings (including false door (for symmetry) in ballroom. Upper room
with exposed panelled framing, stop-chamfered ceiling joists and C16 stone
four centred arched fireplace. The cellars contain open spring head/well.
Adjoining to the south west a walled garden, some 30 metres by 50, walls of
red brick about 7 feet high. The home of Thomas Brett junior, L.L.D.
(1667-1743) "eminent divine and controversial writer" (Lowndes'
Bibliographer's manual) and Non-Juror (bishop in 1716), meetings and
services held here. Temporary home to Joseph Conrad 1919.

Listing NGR: TR0414446623

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17556427

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