Winslow Hall

Details

SP 7627-7727 WINSLOW SHEEP STREET (north side)

6/204 Winslow Hall

19.8.59

GV I

Mansion. Dated 1700. Accounts supervised by Sir Christopher Wren for William Lowndes. Vitreous brick, red brick window surrounds with moulded edges and gauged heads. Stone quoins, moulded capping to plinth, plain second floor, band course and moulded window sills. Moulded and modillioned wooden eaves cornice and pediment. Hipped slate roof with 4 rectangularbrick chimneys in a row along the central spine. Chimneys have recessed panels, single to outer stacks, 2 panels to inner stacks, all with moulded stone caps. 3 storeys and lower ground floor. 7 bays, 3 to centre slightly projecting and pedimented. Barred sash windows to main storeys, those to second floor half the height of lower windows. Round window to attic in pediment. Basement windows leaded with bars in front. Central flight of steps, some C20, some c.1700 of moulded stone from terrace to half-glazed door with barred rectangular fanlight in moulded wooden architrave. Stone doorcase with shouldered architrave, frieze inscribed William Lowndes AD MDCC, and segmental pediment on moulded scroll brackets. Sun fire insurance plaque below central second floor window. Rear is similar but without lower ground floor. W. side of 5 bays has central projection of 3 bays for staircase. E. side has single-storey link wing dated 1901 on rainwater heads, and now containing St.Albans Chapel, to former service wing, once a separate pavilion with brewhouse and laundry. Pavilion has similar brickwork to mansion, shallow dentilled gable with blind and painted round window, slate roof, 2 storeys and 2 bays of altered windows, one blind. Interior of mansion: plan arranged round solid central chimney spine with staircases at W. and E. ends and closets at each corner. Contemporary fittings with some alterations. Major ground floor rooms have fine raised and fielded panelling, and altered fireplaces with later painted overmantels. First floor rooms have original moulded marble fireplaces and panelling only to dado , overdoors and overmantels. Room to rear right has painted canvases in the manner of Daniel Marot with pastoral scenes in elaborate surrounds of swags, scrolls, herms and mask heads. Second floor rooms, one a large gallery, have simpler panelling and fireplaces ofDenton stone with moulded edges. Staircases have closed strings, moulded handrails and turned balusters. E. staircase partly restored. Fine vaulted lower ground floor. (Country Life Vol. CX p. 572-6. Wren Society Vol. 17 p. 54 RCHM II p. 341-3)

Listing NGR: SP7708327591

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Sources

Books and journals
Wren Society Publications in Wren Society Publications, Vol. 17, (1940), 54
Country Life in August, Vol. 110, (1951), 572-576

Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume Two North, (1913)

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