Description

UPTON PYNE UPTON PYNE HILL SX 99 NW 3/69 Pynes 11.ll.52 - II* Large house. Circa 1700, perhaps as late as 1725, with extensions and alterations of 1851 by Ambrose Poynter. Face brickwork, with Portland stone dressings. Slate hipped roof with lead ridges, moulded cornice and parapet and plan band at first floor level. 4 large brick axial stacks with classical pots. Square plan, the C19 additions arranged around a small courtyard. 2 storeys with attic set on a half basement storey of Portland stone. Facades. Garden front (south-east, originally the main entrance facade), 7 bays, the 3 central bays brought out, all angles with brick pilaster quoins. Timber sash windows with thin glazing bars, 6 panes per sash, set in outer reveals and keystone, those on the found floor with moulded lintels. 3 timber sashes plated in break front. Central bays with brick parapet breaking cornice, punctuated by 3 sets of 7 Portland stone balusters, hiding 3 attic dormers. Central doorway with broken pediment on double consoles and pilasters rusticated extending to ground, now giving on to a small stone balcony supported by double stone brackets, with a collection of reliefs fixed to the wall below, from a Ground Tour. The basement fenestration now consists of C20 timber sashes, 8 panes per sash with some other minor alterations to fenestration. Present main front (south-west), 7 bays, the 3 central ones emphasised by Portland stone 2-storey pilasters. Central doorway of 1851, yellow freestone, with rusticated architrave and open pediment containing armorial shield and crest with foliage and festoons. Timber sash windows within glazing bars, 6 panes per sash, the first floor central window with architrave. Dormer windows, south-east front, 3 panes per sash with segmental heads. North-east front is a 5 window range of timber sashes with glazing bars, 6 lights per sash, those on the ground floor plated sashes. North-west front obscured by Poynters additions, which are dignified and sensitive to the earlier house. At the north-west angle a gable-end under pediment, first floor plat band and string course at upper window sill level, connected to main block by recessed single bay wing of tripartite sashes, 6 panes per sash. North-east angle formed by a corner block with mansard roof, joined to main house by a recessed 5 window range. The recessed range may be original. Interior: all C18 rooms with plaster cornices of varied profile, some moulded wall panels and plaster ceilings, recessed panelled doors, and Adam-type chimney-pieces. The 2 most distinguished rooms are the stairhall (of circa 1700) and the present entrance hall (the White Hall of 1851). Dog-leg staircase, all wood, twisted balusters; impressive ceiling with large central pilaster oval with rich band of garlands set within a rectangle similarly treated; cornice with modillions and egg and dart motifs. Large window now with C17 German glass set in early-C19 painted glass surrounds (cf Upton Pyne church were dated 1630). White Hall: although quite a small room Poynter creates quite a grand staircase entrance rising up from ground level, stone, with stone balusters. Internal tympanum above entrance similar to its external counterpart. At the head of staircase, a freestanding statue of a woman in classical dress, on a stone rectangular plinth decorated with figures in relief. Below plaster cornice is a stone frieze of shields and festoons. Noteworthy also is the library with a heavy wooden cornice with festoons and egg and dart motifs. Interior only inspected in part -

Listing NGR: SX9141296350

External Links

• Pynes House at Wikipedia
• Pynes House official website
• Wikidata Q7263126

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