Description

HENLEY-IN-ARDEN

SP1465 NEW ROAD
652-1/11/118 (North side)
05/04/67 Brook End and attached walls and
terrace

II

House and attached stable range and wall. 1909. By CFA Voysey
for the Misses Knight of Barrells Hall. Roughcast with
sandstone ashlar and brick dressings; steeply pitched slate
roof with brick end stack, stack in slope of roof and
cross-axial stack, all with tall pots. 3-unit plan.
EXTERIOR: single-storey plus attic; 4-window range. Entrance
in canted projection to right of centre has open gabled brick
porch with brick piers to ashlar pointed arch, bands and
lozenge with initials; plank door with strap hinges.
Flush-faced mullioned windows: 3-light window to each side of
pair of 4-light windows to left of porch, which has side
lights, and 3-light window to right end; attached pair of
gabled roof dormers with 4-light casements; all have leaded
glazing.
Left return has lean-to outshut below two 3-light windows
under drip-course, and drip-course to gable; attached stable
range with hipped roof and stack; 2 coach entrances have
paired plank doors with strap hinges; similar stable door to
left has flanking 2-light mullioned windows, and entrance with
similar door to right end, with 2-light window to left, leads
to through passage along side of outshut, which has entrance
to house.
Right return has canted conservatory projecting between 2
flat-roofed 3-light bay windows with two 2- plus 2-light
windows above.
Rear has catslide outshut with gable to 3-light transomed
window.
INTERIOR: not inspected, but believed to have Voysey fittings,
octagonal library and octagonal dining room, and conservatory.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: wall attached to outshut projects with
round-arched gateway then returns to cross front of stable
range, with paired plank gates under archway, and later garage
with swept roof and entrance with paired doors to front gable;
similar wall with arched gateway to return attached to other
end of house, which stretches round 3 sides of a garden to the
right of the house; terrace with rubble walling and steps with
ball finials connects 2 walls and the porch.
(Simpson D: CFA Voysey: An Architect of Individuality: London:
1979-: 106).

Listing NGR: SP1489865558

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662432

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