Description

BROCKHAMPTON BY ROSS CP SO 53 SE 1/10 Brockhampton Court Hotel GV II

Country house, now hotel. C18 core of former rectory substantially obscured and rebuilt 1879 by Middleton and Sars; and 1893 by Faulkner Armitage of Manchester. Coursed add dressed sandstone rubble and part sandstone ashlar with further ashlar dressings, slate roof. Neo-Tudor style. Irregular plan with basically rectangular house of 1879 facing west, extended to north and to north-west in 1893; entrance toward centre of west front, axial and gable- end stacks. Two storeys, cellars and attics; plinth, two roll moulded string courses, embattled parapets to porch and tower, raised verges and gables with finials, rusticated quoins, mullioned and mullioned and transomed windows with square headed labels to later section, many casement windows retain latticed leading. West front: 4-light mullioned and transomed window below gable and similar window to left of forward projecting tower with 4-light mullioned windows, decorative strapwork frieze and surface panelled decoration below parapet, date of 1893 in lozenge with further sculptural detail above second floor; gable projecting alongside tower with 2-light window and 4-light window to floors below; dormer with 2-light casement window, 4-light window to second floor, forward projecting single-storey porch with 4-centred arched headed doorway with decorative panelled frieze above, double doors with decorative hinges, glazed inner door; section to right of porch dated 1873, gable with two single lights and central stack projecting slightly from second floor; three further mullioned windows to right. (BoE, p 91; Burke's and Saville's Guide to Country Houses, Vol II, 1980, p 8).

Listing NGR: SO5979431701

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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