Asherne

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STRETE SX84NW Asherne 5/231

GV II

Small country house. Probably circa 1836 (deeds) and remodelled in circa 1860 when Mrs. Packe bought the nurse from the Herberts. Stuccoed stone, rusticated stucco ground floor. Slate hipped roof with deep eaves with moulded cast-iron gutters. Axial and side stacks with tall groups of rendered brick octagonal shafts with cornices. Plan: Built around a service yard, situated at the rear, with principal rooms on the south front overlooking the sea, services in a wing to the rear left, the drawing room in the front of a projecting cross-wing on the right with the stairhall behind entered through a porch on the right side. Through the rear of the cross-wing a passageway gives access to the service yard. The right hand cross-wing is probably a circa 1860 addition and part of an extensive remodelling of the house. The house is built on top of a high cliff overlooking the sea. Exterior: 2 storey. Asymmetrical. 3:1 bay south front, the right hand bay projects. An ornate case-iron balcony with intersecting tracery across entire front supported on thin cast-iron spiral-moulded posts and large cast-iron brackets on moulded corbels. The first floor windows are Cl9 French casements with margin panes and integral sliding shutters in boxes with moulded cornices. The centre right hand first floor window is a small casement with louvred shutters. At the centre left of ground floor a doorway with a glazed door and panelled shutters flanked by Cl9 4-pane sashes with louvred shutters and to the right in the projecting bay a square bay window under the balcony with million-transon windows. The right hand (east) return is entrance side, 1:1:2 bays. The centre bay is a gilded 2-storey porch with a moulded round-headed doorway with C19 panelled double doors and semi-circular fanlight with radiating glazing bars; above is a cast-iron balcony and French casement similar to those at front. To left the balcony continues around from south front and the first and ground floor windows are French casements with louvred shutters similar to those at front. To the right of porch 2 similar windows with louvred shutters and moulded round-headed doorway to service yard at back. On the roof above is a square wooded gable-ended bellcote. The left hand (west) return has 12-pane sashes on first floor with louvred shutters and a French casement below enclosed inside a C20 conservatory. To the left a high stone wall screens a backyard. Interior: Was only partly seen but appears to be intact and complete with all its Cl9 joinery. The large square hall has a high domed plastered ceiling and a timber gallery with small turned balusters; off the hall opposite the gallery a wide straight staircase. The drawing room has a mid C19 stone chimneypiece with later C19 painted flower decoration and a later Cl9 iron grate with decorative tiles. The drawing room has a moulded plaster cornice with ceiling boarder and pretty late Cl9 wallpaper painted with cornflowers. The bedchamber above has painted chinoisserie wallpaper and moulded plaster vaulted ceiling with flowers in deep relief and a white marble chimneypiece with a tiled cast-iron grate (NMR Photograph). The back staircase has stick balusters and a turned newel.

Listing NGR: SX8429346652

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