Description

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TL 1927
9/69

ST IPPOLLITTS
ST IPPOLLITTS VILLAGE
Brook End Farmhouse

(Formerly listed as Brookend Farmhouse)

27.5.68

GV
II
House. C17 or earlier west wing brick cased in 1712, main range renovated 1729 and largely rebuilt after fire c.1775. Timber frame exposed on west side of west wing, wing cased in narrow red brick in irregular bond. Main range in red and blue brick. Steep old red tile roofs hipped generally but parapeted front gable to west wing.

A large two storeys irregular house, set back a little from road facing south. Main range parallel with road has projecting west wing, large rearwall chimney, and an C18 full height rear service block linked to west wing by a formerly open arcaded brick passage recessed into back of house. On south front slightly projecting west wing has two plat-bands, moulded coping bricks to raking gable parapet, two low, wide flush box sash windows with 4/4 panes and segmental arches, rendered square sundial panel, Britannia fire insurance mark, and iron letters M N S as anchorage for internal longitudinal timbers. Main range has four windows to first floor, plat-band, parapet, three windows to ground floor, and entrance at left hand. Flush box sash windows with segmental arches. Sashes altered in early C19 to 3/3 panes with margin lights. Six panels, half-glazed front door in wooden doorcase with tapered fluted pilasters, full entablature, and dentilled triangular pediment. Three-lights casement window to first floor rear of west wing which has a crow-stepped east side to gable fossilised in later addition but moulded raking gable parapet to other slope. Round-arched arcade with fat impost blocks. Inscription inside said to be 'MNS 1729' (RCHM (1911)130 no.3: inf Mrs. Rance: inf the owners).

Listing NGR: TL1966127139

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26396585

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Recommended Books

• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)