Listed Building: INNISDOON AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL AND GATE PIERS (2.1.33)

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Grade II*
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EH LBS Legacy ID 391699
Date assigned 07 October 1977
Date last amended

Description

House and attached service wing and flat, boundary wall and gate piers. 1904-05, with late C20 alterations. By Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin. For Walter Barringer of Mansfield. Arts and Crafts style. White painted roughcast walls with hipped and gabled plain tile roofs with 2 ridge and single side wall stacks. Irregular triangular plan.2 storeys; 3 bays. Windows are mainly wooden-framed casements on the first floor and frameless casements below, all with leaded glazing. Northern entrance front has a central jettied gable with a 6-light window, overhanging a deeply recessed splayed entrance with wooden lintel with Gaelic inscription and the initials "WB-LB 1905". Half-glazed door flanked by 3 small square windows. To right, 2 similar windows. Beyond, to left, an angled corridor with 3 single windows. To right, an angled bay with a single small window, topped with a stack with 4 square flues set diagonally. Garden front, to west, has a continuous first-floor window, 16 lights, 4 of them with transoms. Below, full-width tiled hipped canopy covering central French window, flanked to left by a 3-light wooden-framed window and to right by 2 larger windows. Beyond, on either side, a canted bay window with 4 lights. Left return has two 2-light windows and below, 4 single windows. South front has to left a triple gabled projection with three 4-light windows. Below, attached greenhouse to left and 4 reglazed windows to right. To right again, rear wing with elliptical-arched carriage opening and above it, 2-light and 3-light windows. On the opposite side, a 3-light window above the arch, and a similar window to right. Below, 2 single windows. Under the archway, 2 small windows and a door on each side.2-storey service wing projects to south-east, with a lower hipped garage at the south end. Large side wall stack to left, adjoining carriage arch, and to right, a large flat-roofed through-eaves dormer and a smaller dormer under the eaves. Boundary wall, to south, coursed squared stone with half-round coping and a pair of vermiculated square gate piers.INTERIOR: detailing attributed to Cecil Hignett. Polygonal lobby and 2-storey central hall with galleried landings. Hall contains fitted settle and limestone fireplace with segmental arch and enormous floriated keystone. Wooden dogleg staircase with pierced splat balusters. Dining recess has folding double doors on one side, to the former schoolroom, and double sliding doors on the other. Sliding doors have exposed wrought-iron hangers and tracks, and both sets of doors have 6 small leaded lights with stylised flower designs. Living room has inglenook firplace with curved brass hood, and former schoolroom has fireplace with copper hood and recessed ashbox. Former kitchen has original fitted cupboards and settle. First floor library has an oriel window with leaded glazing looking onto the hall. Wrought-iron latches, locks, hinges, stained glass and carving all part of original design. An important and little altered example of the work of this partnership. (EH)

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Grid reference Centred SK 53619 61616 (36m by 25m)
Map sheet SK56SW
District Mansfield
Civil Parish Mansfield, Mansfield

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Apr 29 2015 11:39AM

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