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were made 1946-48 via architect A.G.S. Butler for Norman See. It is in limestone laid ashlar, has a slate roof and stone lateral and ridge stacks. It has two storeys, basement and, attic across a 7-window range to an H-plan. Centrally it has 6-panel double-leaf doors with an overlight flanked by 15-pane sash windows with elliptical-arched heads. It has a single-storey 3-bay portico approached by a curving, double-arm, balustraded stairway. It has tuscan columns with strong entasis, balustrades between columns, and a plain entablature originally with balustraded parapet, removed in the 20th century. Venetian windows exist to the ground floor either side of portico and to the projecting wings with elliptical-arched heads, stone balustrades and blank side panels. Centrally the lst floor windows form a tripartite lunette-shaped composition widely divided. Lunettes are in place either side and to the wings with blank side panels. The attic storeys end with open pediments and have 6-pane sash windows with stone lintels. The 5-bay attic between is an addition of about 1840. The building has lunette windows to its basement, a plinth, has sill bands, then has a giant dentilled cornice at 1st floor level, and a band and moulded cornice at the attic floor level. The wings have been extended 1 bay to the rear. A 2-storey rendered brick-built addition leads on to rear of the main range. A mid nineteenth century columned porch is to the left side, made of rendered brick. A single storey 20th century kitchen is annexed. Inside the 3-bay centre hides a hall in the style of Inigo Jones's
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