Furzedown House And Attached Conservatory, Now Theatre

Heritage listing

Details TQ 27 SE 4/101 SPALDING ROAD Furzedown House and attached Conservatory, now Theatre II House now secondary school. 1800-02 altered and extended 1862-67 by James Thomas Knowles to include conservatory. House gault brick, with hipped slate roofs. Stone dressings. Upper storey said to be refaced by Knowles. Main block, three storeys with two storey wings to south east and north west. Garden front in five bays with central three bays breaking forward slightly. Central entrance, now with pair of glazed doors, full height windows to left and right, some retaining small paned sashes, some with French windows. Upper two storeys have casements with top lights, but in original openings. Windows have flat gault brick arches. Moulded stone band between second and third storeys. Modillion cornice to oversailing eaves. Plain brick stacks with stone copings. Continuous verandah, reached by flight of stone steps, south-east return, two bays with three storey elliptical bow to one bay, retaining two ground floor original sashes (the third now French windows); upper storey sashes. Slender iron balcony to left floor of bow. Rendered band across second bay. Flight of five elliptical steps to ground floor. Entrance front similarly detailed, with added porch of 1860s with stone balustraded parapet. Retains ground floor sashes with glazing bars. Two storey wing to south-east, has to north-west tall ground floor windows beneath semicircular headed arches with radial glazing bars. Interior: open well staircase, with cast iron balustrade of 1860s. Moulded mahogany rail. Most ground floor doors are of six raised and fielded panels in moulded architraves, with entablature above set on moulded brackets. Said to be an original grate set in carved chimney piece. Single storey canted bay and t

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.