Apperley Court Deerhurst, England

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DEERHURST - SO 82 NE 3/27 Apperley Court II Country house. C18; 1817-'18 by J. Collingwood for Mrs Strickland, later extensions after 1845 for Strickland family. Smooth render lined as ashlar to front and part left return; roughcast to part rear, English-bond brickwork, front roof slated, rear tiled. Seven-window front, 2½ storeys, with ground-floor verandah; various rear wings, part 2 floor, part 3, producing irregular plan. Front elevation to garden: end bays slightly set back. Central, single-storey portico, 4 Ionic pilasters, infilled glazed screen with marginal lights; double French doors centre; moulded cornice, flat roof. Each side a verandah full length front, up 2 stone steps, 4-bay open front, cast iron columns, decorative ironwork to eaves, half-bay each side of centre infilled with wooden glazed screen with marginal lights: hipped roof at ends. Behind, each side 24-pane sash, 2 pairs French doors up one stone step. Above seven 16-pane sashes, louvred shutters, plain string course and parapet. Seven gabled dormers, each 2-light casement; main roof hipped, chimneys on ridge, one bay in from each end and to right of centre bay. Canted bay on right return. Left return, plinth, wide sash window, half-glazed door, in recess up 2 stone steps, rectangular light over; 3 large sashes, with panelled shutters internally. Above; blind window, sash with ornamental blind box over, 3 sashes with louvred shutters. String course, parapet and dormer on right as front. Hipped roof, chimney on ridge to left of door. To left, lower brick wing. Interior: main stair hall stone paved, stairs elliptical, fretwork ends to treads, moulded handrail sweeps down as newel at bottom, ending in lion's foot. Six-panel doors, dummy fielding, reeded surrounds with corner paterae. Two semi-circular niches with shaped shelves to stair walls; modillion cornice, laylight over. Room behind portico, marginal lights to doors to portico, anthemion instead of circular patera in doorcases, dado rail. Room to left of portico reeded marble fireplace surround with corner patera, dado rail. Moulded plaster cornices to front rooms. At rear of right end on ground floor 2 W.C's and washbasin room, panelled wooden casing and cupboards, dado tiling. Blue patterned W.C. pans and washbasins with brass taps. Three-bay, 2-storey farmhouse before 1817; left end bay added to 1817-18 house after 1845, right bay and dormers later; 1898 proposed billiard room not built. (Three pictures at Apperley Court; D. Verey, Gloucestershire, the Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970; H. Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1978)

Listing NGR: SO8559327665