Description

TEMPLE BRUER with TEMPLE BRUER
TF 05 SW TEMPLE HIGH GRANGE

3/60 Temple Farmhouse
1.2.67
II
GV
Farmhouse. C17, late C18, early C19, with C20 alterations and additions. Coursed
limestone rubble with ashlar and brick dressings. Pantile and slate roofs, with a
single gable and 4 ridge ashlar stacks. Main C17 block, lobby entry plan running
north-south, 2-storey with ashlar quoins, and ashlar coped gables with finials.
South, gable front has a single glazing bar sash to each floor, in chamfered
ashlar surrounds which originally contained mullion windows. The east front has
an off-centre projecting, gabled, early C19 Tudor style porch with ashlar coped
gables and kneelers, and a deeply recessed 4-centred arched doorway with half
glazed door. To the left a single glazing bar sash in a projecting single storey
link. To the right a pair of C20 glazed double doors, under a wooden lintel.
Above a single glazing bar sash also under a wooden lintel. Attached to the
north, the west wing, a 2-storey, single bay late C18 addition with a further
early C19 single bay addition beyond. To the right a pair of C20 glazed double
doors with flanking side lights under a wooden lintel, with to the. left a plank
door and then a 3-light casement, both with segment brick heads. Above, two
3-light casements under wooden lintels. Attached to the north, the east wing, a
2-storey early C19 addition of 4 bays. To the left a pair of C20 glazed doors,
with overlights and to the right two 2-light casements, above four 2-light mullion
windows in chamfered surrounds with metal casements. This house is built on the
site of one of the domestic ranges of the Knight's Templar's Preceptory, and a
small fragment of reused medieval tracery survives in an upper window in the north
gable.

Listing NGR: TF0085753679

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26552318

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Recommended Books

• 
  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5