Description

BRIGHOUSE LILLANDS LANE
SE 12 SW
3/141 Lillands Farmhouse

II

House. Dated 1741. Thin coursed hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof. Hall
and cross-wing plan. L-shaped to the south front. F-shaped to the north with
added kitchen wing. 2 storeys. 3 room south front of 3 bays. 1st bay is
gabled cross-wing which has double framed chamfered mullioned window with square
reveals of 5 lights, formerly with hoodmould. Over was similar window altered
in the late C18 or early C19 to 2 large 12 pane sash windows with plain stone
surrounds. Bays 2 and 3 have slightly recessed flat faced thin mullioned
windows of 4 lights to each floor. Between is doorway with square-headed lintel
decoratively inscribed with date. One finely dressed stack at junction of
cross-wing and to right hand gable to which is attached a 2 cell building of
earlier date, (possibly mid C16), which features diamond set wooden mullioned
windows of 3 lights visible from the interior only, to both floors, and a
fireplace with Tudor arched lintel and finely carved rosette spandrels. Left
hand return wall of cross-wing has flat faced mullioned window of 5 lights with
4-light over. 2 block windows survive to 1st floor. Extruded gable stack.
Gable to rear kitchen wing has quoins and slightly recessed flat faced thin
mullioned windows of 5 lights to each floor. Attached single storey gabled
outshot has entrance doorway with tie stones 3-light chamfered mullioned window
with square reveals.

Interior: Cross-wing has late C18 fireplace to Georgianized 1st floor south
front room with ovolo moulded surround and pulvinated frieze. Kitchen wing has
panelled screen of deal formed of large panels.

Listing NGR: SE1387622652

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26426781

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)