Marlfield — Johnstown Road

Detached three- or five-bay (three-bay deep) two-storey over part raised basement country house, built 1794, on an T-shaped plan centred on (single-storey) prostyle distyle portico on a bowed plan. "Improved", pre-1908, producing present composition. Occupied, 1911. Sold, 1949, to accommodate alternative use. Adapted to alternative use, 1966. Closed, 1980. Extended, 2001, to accommodate alternative use. Replacement pitched slate roof behind parapet with ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having cut-granite "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed cornice capping supporting terracotta or yellow terracotta pots, and concealed rainwater goods with cast-iron hoppers and downpipes. Replacement rendered walls on rendered cut-granite chamfered cushion course on rendered base with cut-granite "Cyma Recta"- or "Cyma Reversa"-detailed cornice on blind frieze below balustraded parapet having cut-granite coping. Round-headed central door opening behind (single-storey) prostyle distyle portico on a bowed plan approached by flight of nine cut-granite steps, cut-granite columns on plinths having responsive pilasters supporting iron-covered cornice on blind frieze below wrought iron railing-topped parapet, and concealed dressings framing glazed timber panelled door having sidelights on panelled risers below fanlight. Square-headed flanking window openings with concealed dressings framing fixed-pane fittings. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing replacement two-over-two (basement) or one-over-one timber sash windows. Paired or grouped camber-headed window openings (east) centred on camber-headed window openings with cut-granite sill courses, and concealed dressings framing two-over-two (basement), one-over-one (ground floor) or two-over-two (first floor) timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, and picture railing below decorative plasterwork cornice to ceiling centred on "bas-relief" ceiling rose. Set in relandscaped grounds.