Description

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL53NW WINDMILL HILL 669-1/3/328 (East side) 04/12/90 The Vineyard

II

Large Victorian mansion. 1864. Architect William Beck. For William Tuke, local banker. Red brick, stone dressings, slate roof, irregular plan. 2 storeys and attics. House in high Victorian Gothic style with polychrome decoration, projecting gables, one and 1 storey bay windows, gable dormers and stair turret. Detailing to corbelled brick eaves and windows in Venetian Gothic style. Range of window forms of 1 and 4 lights, with combination of 2-centre arched heads (and square heads); colonnette mullions and mullions and transoms, some with trefoiled tracery and head moulds. INTERIOR: virtually unaltered with principal rooms opening off E facing hall. Hall constructed in ashlar (now painted); stone fireplace with deep canopy; quarter turn timber staircase with carved splat and quatre-foil infill tracery; Venetian gallery at first floor with marble columns, acanthus leaf capitals supporting 2-centred arches with moulded soffits. Carved stone cornice with carved corbels supporting carved timber bridging joists. Timber panelled ceiling. Full height 4-light E window, stone, with 3 mullions and transom, and trefoiled heads; leaded quarries with colour glass margin lights and roundels. Drawing room has 4-light window, formerly possibly unglazed, opening into conservatory (now demolished) with serpentine colonnettes and carved stone capitals, spandrels and cornice. Carved stone fireplace with panel containing figures above mantel; softwood timber cornices to ceiling and windows and moulded timber panel ceiling. All other rooms retain original detail, including purpose-designed fireplaces, some with Dutch tiles, softwood 6 panelled doors with chamfered rails and stiles and timber panelled ceilings.

Listing NGR: TL5316939247

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)