Discover Alone ← Back to nearby map

← Back to the nearby map

Metcalfe Park — Johnstown Bridge

country house
View what I want to do
Metcalfe Park — Johnstown Bridge
Photo: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage · Open the original picture · Website use allowed for educational or private purposes with source credit · Report the wrong picture · If this is your picture and you want it taken down, email me.
Know this place?

Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.

Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.

Add your photo and local directionsShare what you found

What is recorded here

Detached five-bay three-storey rubble stone Georgian house, c.1720, retaining early aspect with five-bay two-storey recessed wing to east (continuing/overlapping along rear elevation to south by two bays) and single-bay two-storey return to rear to south. Gable-ended roof with slate (hipped to wing and to return to rear). Clay ridge tiles. Rendered and red brick chimney stacks. Rendered coping to gables. Square rooflights to wing. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble stone walls (possibly originally with render over). Cut-stone quoins to corners. Square-headed window openings. Stone sills. Brick surrounds. 2/2 and 6/6 timber sash windows. Round-headed door opening. Timber panelled double doors. Decorative leaded fanlight. Square-headed door opening to wing. Moulded rendered architrave. Timber panelled door. Interior with timber panelled shutters to window openings. Set back from road in own mature landscaped grounds. Pair of detached four-bay single-storey rubble stone outbuildings, c.1720, to south-east and to south-west arranged on opposite sides of a courtyard. Gable-ended roofs with slate. Clay ridge tiles. Cut-stone coping to gables. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Rubble stone walls. Square-headed openings. Stone sills. Timber fittings including tongue-and-groove timber panelled half-doors with overlights. Interiors with exposed rubble stone partition walls.

This official record and map point do not grant access. Most recorded buildings are privately owned; view them only from public ground unless the owner allows entry.