Description

NY 43 NE HESKET BRACKENBURGH

10/148 Brackenburgh

27.12.67

II

House divided into 2 dwellings. Inscribed and dated with Harris coat-of-arms MY
PRINCE AND MY COUNTRY, 1902, by Sir Robert Lorimer for Joseph Harris, with minor
1960 alterations (including demolition of servants' wing). Dressed cream
Lazonby sandstone walls with parapets and flush quoins. Graduated greenslate
roof with banded ashlar sandstone chimney stacks. Large country house of
2 storeys of numerous bays in L-shape. Garden facade has, left to right:
projecting dining room, music room and hall with intervening round-arched loggia
in front of boudoir; at right the right-angled office range is now divided off
as a separate property. Various large transomed and mullioned windows some of
them canted bay windows. Rear entrance facade has high projecting central
5 bays, left billiard room converted to garage and right 3-bay section now blank
walls after demolition of projecting wing. Left double plank doors in round
arch under crested coat-of-arms, with pilasters carried up to string course and
over oriel window with flanking lions, all under a shell hood. Large transomed
and mullioned window; further doorways and 2-light windows on 3 levels. Left
polygonal angle turret and various mullioned windows on 2 levels. Right wing
has 2- and 4-light windows. Orangery connects with The Old Tower. See
Christopher Hussey, The Work of Sir Robert Lorimer, 1931, pp.40-1.

Listing NGR: NY4758738417

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26578675

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)