Winscombe House And Winscombe Tower

Heritage listing

Details This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30 July 2024 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards TQ 52 NW 20/188 CROWBOROUGH BEACON ROAD Highfield, Winscombe Tower and Fernlea Cottage (formerly listed as Winscombe House and Winscombe Tower, previously listed as Winscombe House and Winscombe Studio) 18.4.73 II Detached house, subdivided. Winscombe House (now Highfield) was built circa 1899 by architect H M Baillie Scott in Vernacular Revival style. Local tradition is that the house was built for a Judge Swift. Winscombe Tower was added circa 1902, also by Baillie Scott, as a music room extension to the north west, and the front gable of Winscombe House was also probably remodelled at this time. Service accommodation was added to the north east probably between the wars which is now a separate property called Fernlea Cottage. Some later C20 extensions and replaced windows. HIGHFIELD (Former Winscombe House). EXTERIOR: Ground floor of red brick and a painted roughcast first floor with tiled roof and roughcast chimneystacks, including a front stack set diagonally and an external chimneystack to the south west. The entrance front to the north east is asymmetrical and extended soon after the house was built with a large projecting gable originally supported on four wooden Tuscan columns, but the porch was glazed-in in the later C20. Behind it is the original front door with four ribs and moulded architrave. Casement windows with two oriels to the south east, replaced in the later C20, keeping the original divisions. The rear elevation has a left side gable and three casement windows. At ground floor level behind a later C20 brick and glazed conservatory an earlier tented canopy survives and there are wooden casement windows. Ro

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.