Description

RUGBY MOULTRIE ROAD
SP 5074 NE
4/159
Nos 21/23 (Te Hira)
including Gate-Piers
immediately North West
II GV

House, now old peoples' home. Early C20 with late C20 alterations. Architect not
known. Roughcast brick with stone dressings, some slate hanging on first floor and
a little timber framing over porch. Cumberland slate roof with hipped and gabled
ends, lead rolls to ridge and deep sprocketed eaves with wrought-iron gutter
brackets. Roughcast brick axial and lateral stacks with moulded stone cornices and
squat yellow clay pots, one with diagonally-set shafts. Principal rooms on south
garden front and central entrance hall on north side with stairhall to left and
service rooms in wing on left (NE). Arts and Crafts style, rather in the manner of
Voysey. Two storeys and attic. Asymmetrical south front. Roughcast projecting
gable to right of centre and parapeted bay to its left with stone mullion
windows; deep eaves to left and right with slate hung first floor below on moulded
bressumers. Casement windows with leaded panes and ornate catches. Semi-circular
bay window on west side. North entrance front has recessed porch at centre with
wide segmental stone arch inner doorway and Tuscan columns supporting close-studded
timber frame first floor. Flanked by large lateral stack on right and polygonal
turret on left, to left of which is a large 4-light stone mullion-transom stair
window and another lateral stack with low service wing projecting below. On east
side a late C20 conservatory and in 1990 a bay window was built on right side of
south front and a slate hung lift tower was built on west side. Including coeval
gate-piers immediately north-west; limestone blocks with bands of coursed slate and
with stone caps; wrought iron gates are late C20.

Interior: Much of the original joinery survives. Inglenook in hall, and other
chimneypieces, one with mirror over mantel, panelled doors with original latches and
dog-leg staircase with moulded balusters and square newels with finials. Some Art
Nouveau electric light switches.

Listing NGR: SP5067674935

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26542106

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