Description

SE 91 SE APPLEBY ERMINE STREET (west side, off)

4/16 Springwood Cottage

23.7.86

GV II

Hunting lodge, converted to keeper's cottage. c1820, probably by the Fowlers of Winterton. First floor and outshut to rear added before 1870. Right wing re-rendered and pebble-dashed in C20. For Winn Estate. Coursed limestone rubble and brick, pebble-dashed, with yellow brick and sandstone ashlar dressings and yellow brick stacks; red brick to later first-floor rear section. Slate roof. T-shaped on plan: 5-room east entrance front has porch to central octagonal room flanked by 2-room wings with rear passages; 2-room rear wing with kitchen outshut to rear right. East front: single- storey, 5 bays; symmetrical. Wider central projecting canted bay has projecting enclosed porch with recessed 2-fold half-glazed panelled door and Gothick overlight in pointed arch with stucco hood-mould, beneath moulded ashlar cornice and yellow brick crenellations with gabled ashlar coping. Single cross-shaped arrow-slits to porch sides. Flanking canted sections have pointed 2-light casements with Gothick heads beneath stucco hood- moulds. Wings have central recessed bays with pointed 2-light casements with glazing bars and Gothick heads, flanked by pointed single-light windows with glazing bars. All windows in reveals with stucco sills, those to left wing with stucco hood-moulds. Moulded ashlar cornice, yellow brick crenellations with gabled ashlar coping. 2 axial stacks to rear wing with banded and corniced diamond-shafted chimneys: twin shafts to front, 4 shafts to rear. Left and right returns of wings have recessed central sections, that to left with blind pointed panel with sill and hood-mould; cornices and crenellations similar to front. Rear wing has 2 pointed windows and an elliptically-arched recess to rear left (probably former carriage entrance) with a pointed panel containing a 12-pane sliding sash. Interior. The octagonal room, known as the Lunch Room (for shooting parties) has octapartite-vaulted plaster ceiling with central rose and moulded ribs supported on moulded wood and plaster corbels with carved whorls at the bases; pointed recesses to each wall have shafted architraves with moulded bases and capitals; carved pine Gothick chimneypiece to rear recess has moulded 4-centred arch with foliate carving to spandrels flanked by shafts with moulded octagonal bases and foliate capitals, carved paterae to frieze and arrow-loops and coped crenellations to top; pair of 2-fold panelled doors to either side with architraves of twin miniature shafts and Gothick panelling above with tracery of similar twin attached shafts with carved capitals and bases; similar architraves and tracery to windows and main entrance. The room contains good fitted Gothick-style oak furniture. Entrance lobby has panelled dado, similar shafted architraves and Gothick tracery to inner and outer doors. Blocked domed cellar beneath. Series of dates inscribed to rear of central parapet, the earliest is "Holt 1820". An unusual and distinguished building with good detailing. Both the house and fittings may be by William or Joseph Fowler of Winterton, known practitioners in the Gothick style who worked for Winn at Appleby in the 1820s. J F Fowler, The Correspondence of William Fowler, 1907, 493.

Listing NGR: SE9506611064

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