Description

WYMONDHAM

TG1001 Cavick House including front screen 655-1/7/1 walls 29/12/50

GV I

House. Early C18. Red brick with painted quoins. Slate roof to front, pantiled to rear. 2 storeys and attic in 9 bays. Centre 5 bays set closer together than outer pairs. Arched panelled central door in timber case. Case with a pair of engaged Doric columns, interlace decoration to imposts and a floral frieze round arch. Pedimented hood. Arched cellar windows show to plinth course. String course at first floor. Fenestration of sashes of c1750 within flush frames. Timber egg-and-dart eaves cornice. Hipped roof with 2 ridge stacks and one further stack to each of the 2-storey, single-bay hipped blocks extending from returns. Extending in arcs from returns are screen walls terminating in gault brick rusticated piers. Rear elevation plainer: 3 distinct receding blocks, all hipped; one early C18 sash with glazing bars and 4 gabled dormers also with sashes. Main windows are 2-light cross casements. INTERIOR. Central staircase hall with large-framed panelling. Open-string staircase with 2 twisted balusters per tread and a moulded ramped handrail. Panelled dado. Room to north (dining room) with panelled doors in moulded surrounds, and a moulded cornice. Room to south (drawing room) has panelled doors with eared surrounds and high-quality plasterwork. Marble fireplace with a mantel supported on pair of scrolled consoles. Frieze with a central scene of a shepherd and dog chasing a wolf with a lamb. Flanking panels have relief floral motifs. Eared overmantel panel with decorated side scrolls and frieze terminating in a broken pediment. 6 wall panels are defined by high-relief floral and fruit trails, with sumounting swags, similarly embellished. Centre panel on west wall has a frieze including a bow and a quiver of arrows. Many 2-panelled doors and HL hinges, particularly to upper floor. Roof structure of 2 tiers butt purlins and collars.

Listing NGR: TG1023801265

External Links

• Wikidata Q17537628

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