Listed Building: TROWELL HALL, GAMEKEEPER'S COTTAGE & GARDEN WALL (5.13.7)
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Grade | II |
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Authority | |
EH LBS Legacy ID | 429794 |
Date assigned | 12 February 1975 |
Date last amended |
Description
Country house, c.1880. Possibly by T. C. Hine. Jacobean Revival style. Brick with slate roofs. Ashlar dressings. Chamfered plinth, 2 moulded string courses. Coped and moulded parapets and shaped gables. 2 octagonal, single cruciform and single external side wall stacks. 2 storeys, 5 unequal bays. Double depth T-plan. Windows are cross and mullioned casements. Main north front has to left, block with projecting central bay with blocked keystoned doorcase, fanlight, cornice and strapwork. To its left, external stack. To right, canted oriel window with pierced balustrade. Above, a central casement. To right, set back service wing with 3 casements and above, 2 cross-eaves gabled dormers. To its right, square extruded corner tower with Tudor arched door and to north and casement in return angle. Above, a casement. Above again, 2 stage octagonal tower with strapwork ornament, leaded ogee dome and wind vane. To right again, gabled cross wing with a casement on each floor plus 2 casements in return angle. To right again, single storey gabled and lean-to outbuildings around paved yard. Single casement and basket arched door to north. Double gabled east end has casement, and to right, canted bay window with strapwork parapet. Above, 2 casements. Garden front has to left, gabled cross wing with a casement. To its right, setback bay with a casement and above, a gabled cross-eaves dormer. To right again, gabled extruded corner with a casement on each floor and Tudor arched doorway in return angle. Main block has 2 canted bay windows with strapwork parapets. Above, central oriel window flanked by single casements. Above again, 3 small dormers, the central one with an octagonal stack. Adjoining courtyard contains wash house, storage rooms and pyramid-roofed game larder. Adjoining garden wall, to west, coursed rubble with flat slab coping, has projecting ramped section. Interior has Jacobean style dogleg stair with landings in square stairwell with dentillated cornice and pendant lamp. Entrance hall has panelling and keystoned archways. Principal rooms have deep moulded cornices, wall panels and plaster or papier mache Jacobean style ceilings. Classical marble and ashlar Tudor style fireplaces. Bathroom contains late C19 roll-top bath with shower enclosure and fittings, complete and in use. (NCC/js)
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Location
Grid reference | Centred SK 49457 39941 (42m by 42m) |
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Map sheet | SK43NE |
District | Broxtowe |
Civil Parish | Trowell, Broxtowe |
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Record last edited
Apr 29 2015 11:39AM