Lee House With Attached Stables and Barn and Adjoining Garden Walls to West and East

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SS 53 NW MARWOOD MARWOOD VILLAGE

4/28 - Lee House, with attached Stables and Barn and adjoining garden walls to west and east

- II

Large house, C18 remodelled early C19 with earlier, probably C16 fabric in small range projecting east. The main facade is stucco on rubble stone. Attached stable block to right and attached barn to left, both in squared stone built to courses with gables of rubble stone. These long wings project at right angles to form a large 3 sided courtyard, terraced down on the fourth side. Slate roofs throughout with pairs of brick stacks to each end and two offset brick stacks to rear of main block. Domestic quarters run round into the first bays of projecting wings and are marked by brick stacks. Two storeys. Main block has stone parapet and unmoulded cornice. 5 bays of 15 pane, tilting windows circa 1980, at first floor. Central projecting classical porch of paired stone pilasters, cornice and parapet surmounted by a seated animal sculpture which may not be contemporary. Pair of 3/4 glazed entrance doors. 2 tripartite original timber sash windows, 6 panes upper sash, 9 panes lower sash with glazing bars and matching pattern, single pane wide, side lights, recessed segmental heads, each side of porch. Projecting wing to right has a single opening with timber sashes, 6 panes per sash and 2 openings similarly sashed below with brick surrounds. To the right the stables proper have small 3-light windows, one each side of round headed doorway and timber door. To the right under the eaves a 2-light timber window each with 4 panes in brick reveals. Rear of barn has a slated canopy over large modern double doors. Each projecting gable has coped parapet with kneelers. Large central segmental headed blocked opening with timber sashes inserted with glazing bars, 6 panes per sash, on the barn gable. Above are 2 square-headed openings blocked, also with sills, those on the stable range have 15 pane tilting windows circa 1980 broken through. In the gable apexes round headed recess with sill, that to the stable range modified for a flag pole and flag raising. Small apex finials. The stable gable contains a sundial high up. To the rear of the stable the main range runs into the earlier fabric projecting eastwards, where 2 principals with short curved feet survive. On the south side of the projecting wing is an old square-headed doorway into the present kitchen probably reset, with heavily moulded architrave complete with ancient door. On the north side the projection is jointed by outbuildings to an outshut running from the main range, forming a small rear courtyard. Here, on the north side, is a reset datestone initialled FM:MW and dated 1581. On the south side is a C18 15-paned timber ½ glazed door. Interior: the principal room has a classical style,probably late Cl9 chimneypiece at the west end with paired slender reeded colonettes with horses head capitals with entablature over and bracketted mantle below. C19 cast iron fireplace with matching festoon pattern. Further fireplace in the north wall has early C19 surround with classical figures in the capitals each side of a mythological scene. 2 ornate plaster ceilings, probably contemporary, rectangular panelled to west end, circle set with encircling panels and small rose. In the room at the extreme west end of the main range, a gallery is said to include altar rails from Pilton Church.

Listing NGR: SS5381737257

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