Temple Druid

Plan of centre hall with room each side and stairs at back, detail mostly mid C19 except for sitting room to l. (SW) which has detail suggestive of Nash, though dimensions do not match any of recorded Nash rooms. Hall has 4 small niche recesses, a c. 1800 6-panel door to sitting-room to left, C19 4-panel door to right, C19 plain moulded cornice, plain elliptical arch and stick-baluster stairs with ramped thin rail, scrolled tread ends and bulbous mid to later C19 bottom newel. Room to right, unrestored, has C19 plain cornice and C20 small fireplace on N wall. There is a kitchen in the NW rear wing. The surviving Nash-type room is fairly small, square with elliptical apse on E side, against the hall. Apse has plain plaster over a curve of doors: centre 6-panel door in deep panelled reveal, plaster wall-pier each side and then, a curved 6-panel fielded-panelled door (each to a shallow shelved cupboard) each set next to an outer narrow 2-panel door. Deep panelled reveal and 6-panel door to N. Panelled shutters to S window. Later grey marble chimneypiece on E wall flanked by two arched recesses. Kitchen in rear NW wing.

House, unpainted render with slate hipped deep-eaved roof. Brackets to eaves. Two storeys, three-window range, with restored 9-pane sashes over 12-pane (old photograph shows 6-pane sashes and a C19 tripartite plate-glass sash right). Centre arched doorway with half-glazed door and fanlight with radiating bars. Raised imposts and keystone. Rebuilt Roman Doric stucco porch with two front columns, two attached column responds, entablature and cornice (old photographs show a door with two long arched panels and no porch, the doorcase comprising just the attached columns with entablature and cornice). Raised plinth, band and eaves band. Keystones and slate sills to windows. Eaves with long brackets except where centre breaks forward slightly with a long bracket at right angles and shorter front brackets under eaves. Renewed brick left end chimney. Attached to left is low 2-storey service wing with small brick left end stack. Two large square 6-pane first floor windows and one ground floor late C20 broad French window replacing a tripartite sash. C20 conservatory in poor condition 2004. Right end wall has eaves carried around, raised band and one window each floor, and to right the end of the rear outshut, also with one window each floor, the upper one a C19 6-pane sash. Late C19 or earlier C20 glazing. Outshut rear wall of rubble stone with close eaves. The stonework very rough and altered for windows. Two large raking shores supporting (2004). Stone chimney stack raised in red brick on roof slope left and short stone chimney on rear wall left. Blocked door to ground floor left. Openings generally have late C19-early C20 red brick sides and concrete or metal heads. Centre stair light. Wing running N behind lower wing to W of main house is restored c. 2000 with roof of local small thick grey slates. Rendered, two storeys with modern casement windows.