Details
MANSFIELD
SK5361 CROW HILL DRIVE
924-1/5/44 (North side)
07/10/77 No.1
Innisdoon, and attached garden wall
and gate piers
(Formerly Listed as:
CROW HILL DRIVE
Innisdoon)
II*
House and attached service wing and flat, boundary wall and
gate piers. 1904-05, with late C20 alterations. By Barry
Parker and Raymond Unwin. For Walter Barringer of Mansfield.
Arts and Crafts style. White painted roughcast walls with
hipped and gabled plain tile roofs with 2 ridge and single
side wall stacks. Irregular triangular plan.
2 storeys; 3 bays. Windows are mainly wooden-framed casements
on the first floor and frameless casements below, all with
leaded glazing.
Northern entrance front has a central jettied gable with a
6-light window, overhanging a deeply recessed splayed entrance
with wooden lintel with Gaelic inscription and the initials
"WB-LB 1905". Half-glazed door flanked by 3 small square
windows. To right, 2 similar windows. Beyond, to left, an
angled corridor with 3 single windows. To right, an angled bay
with a single small window, topped with a stack with 4 square
flues set diagonally.
Garden front, to west, has a continuous first-floor window, 16
lights, 4 of them with transoms. Below, full-width tiled
hipped canopy covering central French window, flanked to left
by a 3-light wooden-framed window and to right by 2 larger
windows. Beyond, on either side, a canted bay window with 4
lights. Left return has two 2-light windows and below, 4
single windows.
South front has to left a triple gabled projection with three
4-light windows. Below, attached greenhouse to left and 4
reglazed windows to right. To right again, rear wing with
elliptical-arched carriage opening and above it, 2-light and
3-light windows. On the opposite side, a 3-light window above
the arch, and a similar window to right. Below, 2 single
windows. Under the archway, 2 small windows and a door on each
side.
2-storey service wing projects to south-east, with a lower
hipped garage at the south end. Large side wall stack to left,
adjoining carriage arch, and to right, a large flat-roofed
through-eaves dormer and a smaller dormer under the eaves.
Boundary wall, to south, coursed squared stone with half-round
coping and a pair of vermiculated square gate piers.
INTERIOR: detailing attributed to Cecil Hignett. Polygonal
lobby and 2-storey central hall with galleried landings. Hall
contains fitted settle and limestone fireplace with segmental
arch and enormous floriated keystone. Wooden dogleg staircase
with pierced splat balusters. Dining recess has folding double
doors on one side, to the former schoolroom, and double
sliding doors on the other. Sliding doors have exposed
wrought-iron hangers and tracks, and both sets of doors have 6
small leaded lights with stylised flower designs. Living room
has inglenook firplace with curved brass hood, and former
schoolroom has fireplace with copper hood and recessed ashbox.
Former kitchen has original fitted cupboards and settle. First
floor library has an oriel window with leaded glazing looking
onto the hall. Wrought-iron latches, locks, hinges, stained
glass and carving all part of original design.
An important and little altered example of the work of this
partnership.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Williamson E:
Nottinghamshire: Harmondsworth: 1979-: 173; Sparrow & Shaw:
Flats, Urban Houses and Cottage Houses: 1906-; The Craftsman:
1910-).
Listing NGR: SK5361461615
