page_title: The Homestead, Spondon
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: The Homestead, Spondon / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: English: Split staircase (paddle stairs) to roof enables doubles the rise for the same depth.
context_page_description: The Homestead is a nine-bedroom Georgian house in the conservation area of Spondon, Derby, England. It is Grade I listed.
context_section_description: The Georgian-period house in the Queen Anne style is situated on the brow of a hill rising from the Derwent valley, and is constructed out of red brick and dressed with stone, and uses rusticated stone quoining of millstone grit. It is 2½ storeys, and composed of five bays with sash windows, with the central bay projecting. The entrance is said to employ Venetian styling because it is in three parts, with the central doors  being flanked by two rectangular sidelights with doric entablatures supported by doric half columns, and above the door is a segmentally headed fanlight. Surmounting this are two further round-headed windows with the top one projecting into the open pediment; the first story window has a large corbelled stone sill, and is framed by ionic pilasters. The house is coped with stone on top of a brick parapet, and the roof is mainly of clay tile.
  The balustrades up the main flight of stone steps are in the style of Robert Bakewell, or by Robert Bakewell, himself.
  The rusticated stone gate piers with acorn finials are specifically mentioned in its entry on the English Heritage register.
  Internal features include a three-flight oak staircase with carved tread ends, a fully panelled dining room, a secret passage to the cellar, and an unusual split staircase leading to the roof.
  The plasterwork inside is impressive, and similar to other work in Derby by Abraham Denstone the elder.
  The house also retains much of its original furniture.
caption: Split wooden staircase leading to roof
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