Building record 1204203000 - GREENEND HOUSE, 10 RICKFORD'S HILL

Grade II+. C18. Late. 2 storeys. Brick stuccoed and painted. Angle pilasters full height up to frieze consisting of boldly reeded band across front ornamented with 21 equally spaced 'lion' head masks on square panels. Wide flat eaves a little above frieze. Hipped slate roof. 7 windows on 1st floor in architrave frames. The central 1st floor window arched, with surround of pilaster and broken moulded entablature and architrave round head of arch, a modified Palladian motif, and with balustraded plinth. 6 windows on ground floor, under 1st floor windows but grouped, each side of central door, under continuous cornice hood on carved console brackets. 6-panel central door recessed in rusticated stucco surround with voussoir head and scroll keystone under Doric porch of 2 wall pilasters, 2 columns, entablature with triglyph frieze and modillioned cornice. Back elevation of vitreous and red brick. Interior mainly contemporary, with panelled oak doors etc. Nos 2 to 12 (even) form a group (B1).
Looking down from the W side [of Rickford's Hill], Greenend House. Its true date is apparent at the back, mostly plain brick of c.1700 but with a timber-framed C16-C17 S wing (with contemporary fireplace inside). The handsome stuccoed front belongs to the major remodelling by William Rickford who lived here between 1795 and 1855. Its details look c.1830-40. Seven bays, two storeys, with angle pilasters linked by a reeded band interrupted with metopes with lion's masks just below eaves level. Doric porch against a rusticated door surround with a big keystone fluted like a shell. Above this, an almost Palladian but attenuated arched window framed by Doric colonnettes, an arched entablature and a blind balustrade. Hovering over the lower windows a continuous cornice on leaf brackets (B3).