Reedness Hall

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

REEDNESS MAIN STREET SE 72 SE (north side) 5/33 Reedness Hall 14.2.67 GV II House. Mid C18; renovations of c1980. Brick in English bond. Welsh slate roof to front, pantiles to rear. Approximately square on plan; double-depth with 2-room central entrance-hall south front and twin single-room wings to rear. 2 storeys with attic, 5 bays; symmetrical. Plinth. 2 stone steps to doorcase with plain frieze and moulded pediment, 6-fielded-panel door and 3- pane overlight in reveal. Slightly-recessed C20 12-pane sashes in flush wooden architraves with sills and rubbed-brick flat arches. Stepped and cogged brick eaves cornice. Stone-coped gables with shaped kneelers.

Corniced end stacks. Interior. Fielded-panelled dado to entrance hall; good open well staircase, panelled below, with ramped corniced handrail, pairs of column-on-vase balusters to each tread, projecting tread-ends and fielded-panel dado; coved cornice to stairhall; drawing room, ground floor right, has moulded cornice, moulded skirting, elliptical half-domed alcove with reeded pilasters and archivolt, and good later C18 composition chimney- piece with raised central panel in frieze bearing paterae and garlands; pilastered chimney-piece with moulded cornice to dining room, ground floor left; window seat with fielded panelling to rear right; moulded cornice and wooden pilastered chimney-piece to first floor left; first floor right has fine carved pine chimney-piece with festoons, paterae, etc, and fielded panelling beneath present wall covering: all main rooms were probably originally panelled. Panelled window shutters, fielded-and-beaded-panel doors in architraves and panelled reveals to main rooms.

Listing NGR: SE7924823284

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/1749 IOE Records taken by Janet Roworth; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mrs Janet Roworth. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project