Description

SK 98 NE FILLINGHAM MIDDLE STREET (East side)

5/28 Fillingham Castle 25.10.51 G.V. I

Country house. c.1770, late C18. Possibly by John Carr. Gothick. Limestone ashlar, coursed limestone rubble. Flat roof and 3 parallel slate roofs. 3 visible brick stacks; single stonestack below roof line. Rectangular C18 range with large corner turrets. Truncated C19 range to north. 2 storey, 5 bay front with plinth, projecting central bay and central doorway with bolecton moulded stone doorcase with ogee head, traceried fanlight and deep-set partially glazed doors. Doorway flanked by single glazing bar sashes with 3 glazing bar sashes in each turret. Flat band above doorway rising to segmental arch at apex of doorway. First floor ashlar band above, running over flanking turrets. Large glazing bar sash above doorway, flanked by smaller glazing bar sashes with 3 glazing bar sashes and 3 blind oculi in each turret. Flat band above rising to gable above central bay. Battlements on turrets and main body of house. East front with rubble basement with traces of 4 blocked basement openings. Ashlar band above running over turrets at each end, 4 glazing bar sashes, with 3 glazing bar sashes in north-east turret. First floor ashlar-band above with 4 glazing bar sashes and 3 more glazing bar sashes above in turrets. Flat band and battlements above. All the windows in C18 range with elliptical heads and traceried upper sashes. Later C18 range to north with 5 bay east front. Plinth with 4 glazing bar sashes with large round headed glazing bar sash to right with traceried upper sash. First floor ashlar band with 4 glazing bar sashes above. Band rises in right hand bay to run under small fixed glazing bar window set in blind segmental opening. Flat band above rising to gable over right hand bay. Battlements above, those over right hand bay taller. Hall interior with fine Gothick traceried vaulted plaster ceiling. in the style of Adam, with large pointed arches divided into two lights, tripartite foliate motif, rosettes and bold corbelling on east and west walls. Fine late C18 staircase, single flight, reversed at later date. With bracketted tread ends, 2 very slender carved balusters with square knops to each tread, moulded handrail. Hall ceiling with delicate ornate cornice with modillionsand rosettes. Fine cornices of various designs in ground floor drawing room, dining room, 3 lower turret rooms and 2 upper turret rooms. Turret rooms with domed ceilings and ornate central paterae. Extensive cellars run under both ranges and beyond underneath part of C19 range demolished in C20. Cellars with doorways with elliptical and segmental heads, niches and blocked windows in turrets and main body of C18 house, revealing raising of ground level when terrace built around house. Source: Banks. Volume II, pages 65, 66.

Listing NGR: SK9566186026

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