Description

WORLDHAM HARTLEY MAUDITT SU 73 NW 1/1 Hartley Mauditt House.

II*

House, former rectory. Plain rendered walls (on stone) with a plinth, and panels between the upper and lower openings, stone cills. A late-Regency square building with a narrow wing, and regular facades of 2 storeys. The west elevation is symmetrical, of 3 windows; hipped slate roof with a wide eaves moulding. Sashes in reveals: central half-glazed door beneath a fan- light with curving bars. The north (entrance) elevation has 2 windows, similar features, and a porch of coupled columns in front of a pilaster, and a wide opening having glazed sides to a wide 6 panelled door, beneath a segmental fanlight containing intermingled circular bars: the Order has non-standard mouldings with a 'triglyph' panel above each column, Roman Doric columns with Greek Doric flutes. The south elevation is symmetrical, of 3 windows, but is tile-hung, and has a wide arched frame with a keystone enclosing an arched entrance with a French door and fanlight; to the east is the long service wing, of painted brickwork, with sash windows and a C20 flat-roofed wide porch. The elevations in the angle show an entrance into the wing, a tall staircase window in the main block, the whole being within a yard enclosed by a high wall; the main block has stone walling with brick dressings (covered elsewhere). Interior: a plain staircase, panelled doors in architraves (with non-standard mouldings) and a large room divided by 2 columns and 2 x 1/2 columns in a rich Doric Order, with an original marble fireplace.

Listing NGR: SU7424036540

External Links

• Wikidata Q17533542

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)