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.

Built to the designs of John Neville, for Henry Milling, this is a handsome country house in the Italianate style. The bracketed eaves and quoined pilasters, together with the Doric porch, contribute attractive and subtle articulation. The delightfully elaborate console brackets with pig and ram faces, add an artistic air and a touch of humour to this fine country house.