Michaelchurch Court, Steps and Terrace Walls to Entrance Front

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SO 33 SW MICHAELCHURCH ESCLEY CP MICHAELCHURCH ESCLEY

4/76 Michaelchurch Court, 29/9/52 steps and terrace walls - to entrance front

GV II*

House. C16 and early C17, altered and extended c1866 by G F Bodley for Guy Trafford. Coursed rubble, timber-frame; stone slate roof and rubble stacks. L-plan: main range has combined entrance and garden front facing east; cross-wing over cellar projects eastwards from south end of main range; porch range projects from and masks the great part of the east front of the main range; one large stack with 2 diagonally-set C20 shafts projects from the rear side of the main range and a similar one from the south side of the cross-wing, end stack to north gable of main range. Two storeys and and attics. Prominent timber-framed 3-gabled porch range on rubble base has close-stud and quadrant brace decoration. 6:2 windows to main range, 3:1 to porch range and 1:4 to cross-wing, mainly mullioned and transomed windows with lead quarries in metal casements, except for porch range which has 2- and 3-light casements on ground and first storey respectively. Cross-wing: ground storey has 5 lights under late C19 segmental hood; first storey, 5 smaller lights; gable, 3 lights. Main range and porch range: blocked entrance now one large light immediately to right of cross-wing, 5-light C19 window, to left of main entrance a 2-light window, to its right two 2-light C19 casements; first floor has 2-light casement above blocked entrance, 2-light window, partly obscured by porch a 2-light casement, one set of casements to each of the 3 bays of the jettied timber-framed upper portion of the porch range; attic has two 4-light dormers with cambered and embattled tie-beams beneath gable containing 2 sets of quadrant-braces. Entrance under south bay of early C17 porch which is flanked by 2 layers of plank and muntins. Rear elevation has random mullioned and transomed fenestration, probably mainly late C19 or early C20 apart from 4 evenly spaced dormers with 3 lights under each gable. Side entrance from north immediately to rear of porch range through framed oak door frame with 3 chamfered mullions in fanlight over nail-studded 6-panelled C17 door. Interior: Porch has elaborate plasterwork consisting of interlacing motifs of grapes and leaves containing the date 1602, the initials MLCEN P, grotesque face above large chamfered door posts and C19 12-panelled nail- studded door. Flagged floors. Principal room to left of entrance has C19 panelling; to right is a C17-style dog-leg staircase probably largely C19 rising part a genuine C17. Two-light window in the rear wall. C17 panelling and fireplace to main front room of cross-wing. To the rear of the cross- wing is a plastered wall of posts and rails with remains of decorative floral painting of early C17. Repositioned early C18 door surround in cross- wing at bottom of C19 staircase. First floor has another C17 panelled room with contemporary plaster ceiling in cross-wing, a c1800 Dale cast iron basket grate and 2 conch niches, probably 1930s in the chief room of the main range. To rear 1930s bathroom with original bath, tiling and heated towel rail. Broach stop-chamfered beams to landing at junction of cross-wing and main range with blocked segmental head through timber-framed wall between the 2 parts. Over the porch is close-studded partition; external decorative quadrant braces are visible on the interior. Attic room of main range is 6 roofing bays long: 3 types of truss: open uncollared triangular; queen strut to collar from tie-beam; central post from tie to collar; 3 rows of purlins. Walls and steps to east front are possibly by G F Bodley.

Listing NGR: SO3084634397

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