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SS42SE TORRINGTON ROAD 842-1/4/245 (South West side) 07/04/87 Halsannery Field Centre (Formerly Listed as: TORRINGTON ROAD Hallsannery House)

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Large house, now a field centre. Early/mid C19. Solid rendered walls. Hipped slate roof. Rendered chimneys with panelled sides. Double-depth plan, 3 rooms wide with centre hallway running from main entrance in right side-wall to staircase at rear centre. Back stairs to rear right, behind which are the original kitchen and L-shaped service-wing, the latter arcaded on left side towards a small courtyard. 2 storeys with cellars; 5-window garden front with 4-window entrance-front to right. Garden front has flanking pilasters rising to scroll-bracketed eaves-cornice. 3-light centre window set in slight projection. Ground-storey windows have plain surrounds but with cornices on enriched consoles, the centre window with in addition a frieze decorated with wreaths. In second storey the outer windows have moulded architraves, while the centre one had flanking pilasters. Outer windows in both storeys have 6-paned sashes, except that the right-hand ground-storey window has 3-paned French windows with a 3-paned fanlight. Centre windows have 2-paned sashes, except for a 4-paned sash in middle light of second-storey windows; upper sashes round-headed. Entrance front similar in character, except that the ground-storey windows do not have consoles. Large porte-cochere, probably mostly rebuilt in C20. Above is a square wooden bay window, probably late C19 or early C20, with glazing-bars and fluted frieze. Adjoining the right-hand side is the round-arched stable gateway with flanking pilasters; within the head of the arch is an open-work screen of semi-circular panels. On top of it is a bell in a scrolled iron frame. INTERIOR retains many original high-quality details. Hallway has enriched modillion cornice and screen with composite columns. Geometrical wood stair with thin round balusters carved with lilies at the base; oval skylight decorated with plaster lilies and anthemions. The front ground-floor rooms have the best detail. That to left has an enriched cornice and frieze; white marble chimneypiece with Egyptian-style columns. The other 2 rooms have foliated chandelier-bosses, that to right set in a panelled ceiling. Wood back stairs with octagonal balusters and newels. Kitchen fireplace with key-patterned wood surround. Some good later wood chimneypieces, probably early/mid C20. That in ground-floor right front room has caryatid-like angel, that in first-floor rear right room has inset blue Delft tiles.

Listing NGR: SS4570224533

External Links

• Wikidata Q26571807

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