Ockham House

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TQ72 NW LONDON ROAD 5/40 (WEST SIDE OFF OCKHAM HOUSE

G.V. II

House - Dated 1913 (on fireback) for, and possibly by, Mr Boyle; additions and alterations 1920s/30s. North range of red brick in English bond with ashlar dressings; south range of brick, tile-hanging, timber frame with brick infill and with plastered infill to gables. Plain tile roofs. In Elizabethan style. North (entrance) elevation: 2 storeys with basement. 10 bays, end bays projecting as gabled wings, bay 2 projecting in angle; single storey porch to centre. Dentilled ground-floor cornice; lst-floor string; parapet. Porch has 4-centred-arched opening and inner doorway, each with quoined surround and sunk spandrels; octagonal corner turrets; curvilinear gable with raised shield. Windows have quoined surrounds, champered mullions, 4-centred arched lights on ground and 1st floors, and leaded glazing; they are mostly of 3 lights transomed to bay 4 and on ground floor of bays 3, 6 and 8; but of Z lights above porch, to bay 6, bay 7 1st floor, and bay 9 ground floor; basement windows to bays 2, 4, 7, 8 and 10. 2 span roof. Broad stacks to gable of left wing and right side of right wing. Set-back wings to left and right.

Garden (south) elevation: 2 storeys with attic; 6 main bays. Bay 4 has 2-storey porch, open on ground-floor with timber posts and part-glazed small-pane inner door; lst-floor sundial and 3 light window with sill and lintel bands; ogee roof with finial. On right of porch a 4-light window to each floor that on ground floor in flat-roofed projection. On left, paired 4-light, double-transomed bay windows under gablets; a single-light window to outer side of each. Bays 1 and 6 project under gables, bay 1 having a 6-light window to ground floor, 4-light window above; bay 6 having a 2-storey canted bay window of 1:3:1 lights to each floor. Gables have large boards and pendant finials. Roof, lower than over front (north) range, has three 4-light, flat-roofed dormers and 2 stacks in front roof pitch, that above porch with multiple flues and archaic in character. Interior: Good contemporary interiors. Stair has moulded balusters and newels to lower section and pierced ashlar balustrade; upper section has moulded splat balusters. Panelled Dining Room with 4-centred-arched stone fireplace, the firback dated 1913, and Minstrels Gallery off which opens on 1st floor the Garden Room which has linefold-panelled dado with brattished top, William Morris-style wallpaper, and elaborate coffered ceiling with moulded plasterwork. Dining Room is in C18 style having panelled dado; wall panels with decorative columns between; elaborate fireplace architrave with fluted columns and broken pediment and panelled ceiling. Study and Drawing Room have 1930s fireplaces and bookshelves; those in the Drawing Room with fake books. Various good fireplaces and contemporary sanitary fittings on upper floors, the most noteable room being the "Italian Bedroom" which is in Hollywood-style having columns, decorative fireplace and door architraves, and moulded cornice and bed tester.

Listing NGR: TQ7301525350

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