Description

SK 38/3925 PARISH OF MELBOURNE PENN LANE
6/149 (South Side)
15.6.70 Pennfield House and
Attached Outbuildings
GV II
House and attached lace factory, now outbuildings. Late C18 and
early C19. Red brick on stone plinth, with gauged brick
dressings to south front and painted stone dressings to north
front. Hipped slate roof with brick side wall stacks and
dentilled eaves band. Three storeys and three bays plus three
storey five bay outbuilding attached to east. Garden front has
central doorcase with double, margin light, glazed doors and an
elegant traceried fanlight below iron Gothick porch with
four-centred arches to three sides, a castellated top and
pierced panels to the main posts. To either side there are full
height glazing bar sashes below flat brick arches and above
there are three shallower, similar sashes. Above again there
are three similar, smaller sashes. The top floor was added in
the early C19. North street elevation has a central flush
panelled door in moulded doorcase with fluted jambs and
projecting hood. To either side there are glazing-bar sashes
below rusticated wedge lintels with double keystones and above
there are three similar, narrower sashes. Above again there are
three similar smaller sashes. Attached to east there is an
early C19 lace factory, also of red brick with plain tile roof
plus brick coped gables, brick gable stacks and sawtooth eaves
band. North elevation has rendered ground floor with C20
sliding plank doors to centre, a plank door to west and a small
segment headed window to east. Above there are five segment
headed 3-light small pane windows with small casements and above
again there are five similar windows. The factory is attached
to the house by a small early C19 wing which has a segment
headed panelled door to east to ground floor and two small paned
segment headed casement windows above. Interior of the house
has a stick baluster staircase with column newels and early C19
reeded door surrounds with carved bosses to top corners.

Listing NGR: SK3862625024

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26500314

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