Description

BICTON C.P. - SJ 41 NE 6/7 The Isle 29.1.52 GV II

Small country house. Probably late C17, with alterations and additions of 1749 (datestone),for Humphrey Sandford, and c.1836. Further late C19 and early C20 additions. Red brick with some grey sandstone ashlar dressings. Hipped slate roofs. Rectangular plan with recessed ends, filled in after 1836. Further later additions to east and west. Three storeys. South (entrance) front: moulded stone cornice and blocking course. Pair of symmetrically-placed external brick lateral stacks to front with pitched- roofed links to attic; brick ridge stack off-centre to right, 2 brick- stacks off-centre to left and integral brick lateral stack to rear. 1:2:1:1:1:2 bays (the left-hand bay is an addition of c.1900) with stacks between second and third and fifth and sixth from right; 4-pane boxed sashes (narrow to right-hand end) with stone cills and gauged-brick heads. Windows in addition to left with segmental heads. Enclosed central Doric porch of c.1900 with cable-fluted columns supporting entablature, moulded cornice, triangular pediment, and blocking course to sides; door with 3 raised and fielded panels, rectangular overlight and moulded architrave. Right-hand return front: 1:2:1 bays with central break. Stone cill band to second floor. Large post-1911 one-storey addition of 3 x 5 bays with sashes; pilasters, frieze and cornice; central break with pair of half- glazed doors. Rear:1:2:1:2:1 bays; first-floor glazing bar sashes in second and third bays from right. Gables over second and third and fifth and sixth bays and taller central break with flanking scrolls, moulded cornice, blocking course and globe finials, and datestone (restored) above central second-floor window, inscribed: S H E 1749 Central pair of half-glazed doors. Interior: mostly mid-C18. Central entrance hall: C18 L-plan oak staircase rising to second floor, with open string, cut brackets, moulded nosings, column-on-vase balusters (2 per tread), Tuscan columnular newel posts, and ramped moulded handrail, wreathed with quarter splay to foot newel; raised and fielded dado panelling with ramped rail. Dado panelling to first-floor landing too. Right-hand ground-floor front room: C18 raised and fielded oak panelling with moulded dado rail and cornice; pilaster strips with raised and fielded panelling flanking c.1840 marble fireplace. Window shutters with raised and fielded panels and door with 6 raised and fielded panels and fanlight. Right-hand ground-floor rear room: C18 fireplace with marble slip, lugged architrave, frieze with carved scrollwork and urn to centre, and cornice with carved egg and dart ornament. Enriched plaster cornice. Window shutters with raised and fielded panels. Right-hand front bedroom: C17-type panelling with carved frieze. Fireplace with C18 lugged architrave and flanking pilasters with raised and fielded panels, and C17 panelled overmantel with lozenges. Left-hand front bedroom: early to mid-C18 fireplace has lugged wooden architrave with fluted key and C18 pictorial ceramic tiles in reveals. Right-hand rear bedroom: C17-type panelling with moulded cornice and fireplace with lugged architrave, panel over and flanking pilasters with raised and fielded panels. C18 doors throughout with raised and fielded panels. The house contains (January 1987) a collection of drawings and photographs, including a drawing dated 1836 showing the building before the recessed ends were filled in and a photograph of c.1911 showing the south porch but not the garden room to the east. The Isle has been the Sandford family home since the C16. Thomas Farnolls Pritchard of Shrewsbury is said to have carried out some work here, and if so was probably responsible for much of the mid-C18 work.

Listing NGR: SJ4594916765

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