Description

BRADMORE LOUGHBOROUGH ROAD SK 53 SE (west side)

5/17 No.118 and No.120, (Debdale Farmhouse) 14.5.52 and adjoining barn

G.V. II

Farmhouse, now house and cottage and adjoining malting barn. Early C18, mid C18 and 1799. Designed by and built for Sir Thomas Parkyns of Bunny Hall. Farmhouse early C18. Red brick. Concrete pantile roof. Single ridge and right gable red brick stacks. Brick coped gables with kneelers. Raised eaves bands. Stepped brick plinth. Lobby entry plan. 2 storeys, 4 bays. Doorway with plank and part glazed door originally under a segmental arch. To the right are 2 tripartite casements and to the left a single similar casement. Above are 3 similar casements with a single 2 light casement over the doorway. All openings are under segmental arches. To the right is the lower 1799 red brick and pantile 2 storey, 2 bay wing. Doorway with panelled and part glazed door and glazing bar overlight. To the right is a single segmental arched casement in former doorway and on the far right a single blocked opening. Above is a single casement. Attached to the right is a red brick and pantile single storey single bay outbuilding with dentil eaves. Attached to the left of the house and of the same height is a red brick and plain tile 3 storey, 5 bay barn, with brick coped gables with kneelers and raised eaves bands. Having from left to right a domestic doorway, a carriage doorway, 2 domestic doorways and a carriage doorway, all now blocked, segmental arched with brick hood moulds over. Above are 4 fixed lights set at different levels, and above is a single fixed light with to the right a single blocked window. Blocked slit ventilators. Rear top 2 floors of the barn are corbelled out. Interior of house with large beams and bressumer beams over some fireplaces. Interior plan altered. After a devastating fire in 1705 much of the village of Bradmore was rebuilt by Sir Thomas Parkyns of Bunny to his own designs.

Listing NGR: SK5856831137

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