Hobland House

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BRADWELL HOBLAND ROAD TG 50 SW 8/50 Hobland House - II

House. C18, enlarged and remodlled in early C19, altered and extended in late C19 and extended again in C20. Flemish bond red brick. Welsh slate roof with gabled ends and wooden modillion eaves cornice. Brick axial and gable end stacks with yellow clay pots.

Plan and development: The original circa C18 house was a single depth 2-room plan arrangement which now occupies the centre room (hall) and right hand dining room of the present house. In the early C19 the house was substantially enlarged (and refaced) by the addition of another principal room at the left end with a large bedchamber above; the left hand roan of the original house becoming the central entrance hall with a staircase at the back and a large 2-storey outhut was built at the rear for the service rooms, the kitchen to the right. It was probably in the later C19 that the left hand rear rooms were extended by the addition of bays at the back and the pantry and scullery were rehoused in a single storey outshut on the right hand side. Attached to the front (south) of the side outshut there is a Second World War air raid shelter. In the late C20 a conservatory was added to the left of the front of the house.

Exterior: 3 storeys. Symmetrical widely-spaced 3-window south front. Later C19 sash windows with margin panes and flat brick arches on the ground and first floors and early C19 8-pane sashes on the second floor. Flanking the central doorway are 2 small C19 round-headed sashes with margin panes, the left hand one and the window to its left are new doorways inside the late C20 flat roof conservatory. Central doorway with good early C19 wooden portico; the Tuscan columns have fluted necking and support an entablature canopy; rectangular fanlight with patterned lead tracery and panelled reveals; the door is C20. Projecting at the right of the front a Second World War air raid shelter with embattled coping. On the left (west) end a single storey canted bay window with egg-and-date cornice. At the rear the roof is carried down over the 2 storey outshut which has various sash windows and to the right 2 single storey bays.

Interior: Most of the C19 joinery is intact including panelled window shutters, panelled doors, some early C19 and others later C19. On the first floor there are C18 2-panel doors and also on the second floor where there is a complete set. The early C19 staircase at the back of the hall has an open string with scrolled tread ends, stick balusters and moulded mahogamy handrail with ivory inlaid circle on the wreathed curtail over a column newel. The halls moulded doorframes have segmental heads. The hall has a C20 chimney- piece and the left hand (drawing) room has a C20 Tudor style chimneypiece. The right hand (dining) room has a moulded plaster cornice with a reeded ceiling border. The rear left hand room has a moulded plaster cornice and early C20 mahogany chimneypiece. The dairy or pantry has slate shelves. The main (west) bedchamber has a high ceiling with a moulded cornice and reeded border with rosettes at intervals; 2 large doorways with fluted architraves and large 6-panel doors, and a white marble chimneypiece with detached Tuscan columns. The cellar is brick vaulted.

Listing NGR: TG5072601583

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