Shanlis House

Detached five-bay two-storey over basement house, built 1858. Projecting entrance porch to centre east elevation. Hipped slate roof, clay ridge tiles, red brick corbelled chimneystacks, stepped stone caps; moulded cast-iron gutters on projecting eaves, painted timber soffit supported on paired brackets, square-profiled cast-iron downpipes. Roughcast rendered walling, smooth rendered channelled quoins to corners and flanking central bay, smooth rendered sill courses to ground and first floor windows. Square-headed window openings, tooled limestone sills; painted smooth rendered moulded kneed architraves, animal-head brackets supporting cornice to ground floor; painted moulded architraves to first floor, painted timber two-over-two sliding sash windows. Square-headed door opening to entrance porch flanked by Doric pilasters supporting frieze and cornice, moulded surround to painted timber double doors with four raised-and-fielded panels, plain-glazed overlight; accessed via flight of limestone steps, encaustic tiled porch. Bitumen-surfaced tree-lined avenue to road accessed through wrought- and cast-iron gates flanked by cast-iron railings.