Compton Undermount

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BONCHURCH VILLAGE ROAD 1. 5271 (South Side) Compton Undermount SZ 5778 1/53 SZ 5777 2/53

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2. Undermount was originally a farmhouse of C17/C18 origin, recased as "cottage orné" circa 1820-30 with subsequent alterations. Compton was an addition of 1857 and is now a separate property. The whole forms a picturesque composition with Gothic and Jacobean details. Undermount is of 2 storeys stone rubble, stucco faced on south front. Paired and single gables with cusped open work bargeboards over 1st floor casements. Large, shallow, stone mullioned oriel to right hand of 3 centred arched doorway with carved spandrels and dripmould extended over side lights. Compton, the 1857 extension, is of 2 taller storeys and attic, stone rubble, ashlar dressings with Dutch gables and external stacks with paired Tudor chimneys. Weathered strings and copings to gables. Stone mullioned windows. Part of this 1857 extension abutts Undermount and is linked to main block by glazed and rendered section with buttresses. The west front is largely taken up by one end of a conservatory-winter garden, circa 1857, with close set panes and raised ridge, canted west end. A staircase with Tudor style balustrade returned to terrace, leads down from large 3 light stone mullioned-transomed French window, dripmould over. South garden front of Compton has Dutch gable and tall 2 storey canted stone mullioned bay window. Undermount on this front has 3 irregular stepped gables; rendered front with small oriel windows to attic, later rectangular bay windows with mullioned Tudor arched lights. The houses are reached through a tunelled drive in a rock outcrop of the Undercliff.

In the above entry the descriptive notes should be amended as follows :

2. Undermount was originally a farmhouse of C17/C18 origin, recased as "cottage orné" circa 1820-30 with subsequent alterations. Compton was an addition of 1857 and is now a separate property. The whole forms a picturesque composition with Gothic and Jacobean details. Undermount is of 2 storeys stone rubble, stucco faced on south front. Paired and single gables with cusped open work bargeboards over 1st floor casements. Large, shallow, stone mullioned oriel to right hand of 3 centred arched doorway with carved spandrels and dripmould extended over side lights. Compton, the 1857 extension, is of 2 taller storeys and attic, stone rubble, ashlar dressings with Dutch gables and external stacks with paired Tudor chimneys. Weathered strings and copings to gables. Stone mullioned windows. Part of this 1857 extension abutts Undermount and is linked to main block by glazed and rendered section with buttresses. The west front is largely taken up by one end of a conservatory-winter garden, circa 1857, with close set panes and raised ridge, canted west end. Inside the conservatory a staircase with Tudor style balustrade returned to terrace, leads down from large 3 light stone mullioned-transomed French window, dripmould over. South garden front of Compton has Dutch gable and tall 2 storey canted stone mullioned bay window. Undermount on this front has 3 irregular stepped gables; rendered front with small oriel windows to attic, later rectangular bay windows with mullioned Tudor arched lights. The houses are reached through a tunelled drive in a rock outcrop of the Undercliff. The tunelled drive and the wing known as Compton of 1857 were built by the then owners of Undermount, Sir John and Lady Pringle, to receive Queen Victoria. Lady Pringle was a friend of the Queen and had been one of her bridesmaids. The wing contains a vast music room with an elaborate ceiling decorated in the Italian manner with a circular Wedgewood plaque in the centre. (The only other example of this plaque is at Windsor). Above the music room, two bedrooms were provided for the Queen and her Lady-in-Waiting.

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BONCHURCH VILLAGE ROAD 1. 5271 (South Side) Compton Undermount SZ 5778 1/53 SZ 5777 2/53 II 2. Undermount was originally a farmhouse of C17/C18 origin, recased as "cottage orné" circa 1820-30 with subsequent alterations. Compton was an addition of 1857 and is now a separate property. The whole forms a picturesque composition with Gothic and Jacobean details. Undermount is of 2 storeys stone rubble, stucco faced on south front. Paired and single gables with cusped open work bargeboards over 1st floor casements. Large, shallow, stone mullioned oriel to right hand of 3 centred arched doorway with carved spandrels and dripmould extended over side lights. Compton, the 1857 extension, is of 2 taller storeys and attic, stone rubble, ashlar dressings with Dutch gables and external stacks with paired Tudor chimneys. Weathered strings and copings to gables. Stone mullioned windows. Part of this 1857 extension abutts Undermount and is linked to main block by glazed and rendered section with buttresses. The west front is largely taken up by one end of a conservatory-winter garden, circa 1857, with close set panes and raised ridge, canted west end. A staircase with Tudor style balustrade returned to terrace, leads down from large 3 light stone mullioned-transomed French window, dripmould over. South garden front of Compton has Dutch gable and tall 2 storey canted stone mullioned bay window. Undermount on this front has 3 irregular stepped gables; rendered front with small oriel windows to attic, later rectangular bay windows with mullioned Tudor arched lights. The houses are reached through a tunelled drive in a rock outcrop of the Undercliff.

Listing NGR: SZ5767478016

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