Paschoe House Including Stone Wall to West and North

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COLEBROOK SS 79 SE 3/180 Paschoe House including Stone Wall II G V to West and North

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Farmhouse. Circa 1850-60. Snecked mudstone rubble with ashlar quoins, dressed Bathstone details, rubble chimney shafts with ashlar quoins and moulded cappings, slate roofs. Imposing house in Tudor Gothic style. Double depth plan with parallel gable end roofs. Two storeys and attic over cellar. The principal (garden) front faces south but the main entrance is on the north side. On the south front originally two main ground floor reception rooms of which the east room was divided into two rooms in 1969. A central stack between the main rooms serving back-to-back fireplaces. Against the stack a central lobby entrance from the garden. Gable end stacks serve first floor end rooms. On the north front the entrance doorway leads into a central stair hall: on the left a large reception room with a projecting stack in the cross gabled east end of the north wall, two service rooms with axial stack between to right of the hall. Garden front: a symmetrical four window elevation with a central projecting single storey porch flush with the fronts of a two storey gabled bay window to either side and a further window on both floors to left and right. Each bay window of four lights with mullions and upper transom and a ventilator in each gable. Windows at either end are two lights with similar details: all are externally ovolo moulded and contain fixed upper sashes and lower sashes which slide up behind the transoms. All sashes have horizontal glazing bars. Central porch has a Tudor arched doorway with moulded surround and carved foliage in the spandrels; pair of panelled and glazed doors with overlight are probably original. Parapet over porch has a central gable above an uninscribed panelled plaque. Across the south front soffit moulded drip courses at first floor level and below parapet. Parapet coping is carried around bay window gables and end gables. The east double gable wall has three windows of one, two and three lights with mullions and upper transoms with a ground floor canted bay window with embattled parapet to right. The north (main) entrance elevation is also irregular with three windows and stack to left. Left of centre the entrance doorway similar to doorway on the south front. The drip course makes a small gablet above doorway. A four light mullion and upper transom window above, a similar three light window to right of centre and a small two light window at right. Central bays have gablets with ventilators. In the west end wall a two-light stone mullioned window to each floor and a single light window in the gable. At west end of north front, a high stone wall is set back slightly and contains several blocked ovolo moulded ground floor windows to former service wing. The wall returns to enclose a small service courtyard and extends to north to connect Paschoe House with Paschoe Cottage (qv). The return contains a blocked two-light ovolo moulded window and a large Tudor arched carriageway with richly moulded jambs leading to the courtyard. Interior: mostly original joinery and chimney pieces. South front reception rooms have ornate jacobean style Bathstone chimney pieces. Large open well stair- case with closed string, shaped newel posts and slender turned balusters.

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COLEBROOKE SS 70 SE 3/180 Paschoe House including stone wall to west and north

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Farmhouse. Circa 1850-60. Snecked mudstone with ashlar quoins, Bathstone detail; ashlar chimney shafts; slate roof. House faces garden to south with double depth plan under parallel gable-ended roofs. Front block has symmetrical 4-room layout with large central stack serving back-to-back fireplaces to central rooms and end stacks to outer rooms. Central doorway to lobby entrance. Rear block also has 4-room plan. Right (east) room with projecting rear lateral stack, large stair right of centre and service rooms to left (west) served by axial stack between. 2 storeys with cellar under rear west room. Tudor Gothic style. Symmetrical 5-bay 4-window garden front. Inner window bays project forward square with gables over and contain 4-light mullion-and-upper- transom windows and ventilators under gables. Outer bays have similar 2-light windows. Central porch brought forward flush to fronts of bay windows and has Bathstone doorway, a Tudor arch with moulded surround and carved foliage in spandrels. It contains pair of panelled and glazed doors with overlight, probably original. Parapet over porch includes small gable over an uninscribed panelled plaque. Soffit-moulded drip courses at first floor level and below parapet with coping carried round bay gables and main end gables. All stacks of ashlar with soffit-moulded caps. All windows are externally ovolo-moulded and contain fixed upper panes and lower sashes which slide up behind the transom. All include gazing bars. Right (east) double gable has irregular 3-window front of 1, 2 and 3-light mullion-and-upper-transom windows and includes, ground floor right (rear), a canted bay window with embattled parapet. Dripcourses are carried round continuously from front to rear. Rear and main entrance elevation also irregular. It is a 3-window front. Stack to left (east). Left of centre is main door similar to front door. Drip course above makes a small gable and above that a 4-light mullion-and-upper-transom window. Similar 3-light windows right of centre and small 2-light windows at right end. Centre bays have gables over contains ventilators . Plain casements in west end wall. Interior includes much original joinery and most chimney pieces. Principal front roam have ornate Jacobean-style Baths tone chimney pieces. Rear block has large open yell staircase with closed string, shaped newel posts and slender turned newels. From left (west) end and set back a little from front a high stone wall extends westwards stepping down and containing blind ovolo-moulded windows then returning to rear to enclose service courtyard and which contains the stables, now garage. From right (west) end of rear wall a high stone wall extends northwards connecting Paschoe House to Paschoe Cottage (q.v.). It contains a blind 2-light ovolo-moulded window and a large Tudor arched carriageway with richly-moulded surround to service courtyard. There is said to have been a gatehouse upper room connecting house and cottage.

Listing NGR: SS7507701082

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