Halswell House – The House

Exterior

South–west Range

Projecting from the south elevation on a different alignment is a two-storeyed four bay brick range. The bricks are narrow (650 x 225mm), hand made and orange-red in colour, laid in Flemish bond. Window surrounds are mainly of three-light ovolo-moulded mullion pattern and have been painted but are probably all of 20th century date (some are obvious mid 20th century insertions); two have single-course brick relieving arches for narrower windows. There is a single door with a four-centred head and the outline of another bricked up doorway further south, abutting a straight joint which marks a one bay extension to the building. All the feature of the south gable wall are 20th century.

The west wall of this range has been painted; the extension at the south end is brick with modern windows and the outline of a blocked door. The remainder of the wall, including the gable at the north end is rubble built and heavily overpointed in cement. The continuous slightly offset band at the base of the wall probably masks an exposed foundation; the ground rises steeply to the west and has been cut back to form a path. Openings are mid 20th century except for one small casement window and fragments of hood moulds marking the positions of previous windows in the gable. This gable adjoins the projecting west end of the south range which has a hipped roof and is rendered. It has windows of mid 18th century type with plain stone architraves; in the end wall these are of half-rounded and (altered) Venetian pattern with plain sashes in the return adjoining the mid 18th century screen wall.

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