Description

BRANCEPETH THE VILLAGE NZ 2237 (East side) 15/32 No. 1 10/5/67 (formerly listed as No. 1 Brancepeth) GV II House. Mid C19 for Brancepeth Estate. Tooled snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings. Graduated green slate roof with ashlar chimney stacks. Jacobean style. 2 storeys, 3 bays, the right bay projecting and cross gabled. Chamfered plinth. Central 4-panel door and overlight in moulded, shoulder- headed doorway. Double-chamfered, stone-mullioned windows. Cross window on ground floor of left bay, and above in gabled half dormer with ball finials. Right bay has 3-light windows and shaped gable with chamfered coping and ball finials. Steeply-pitched roof has coped left gable and square kneeler with ball finial. Corniced square-plan stacks with ornamental chimney pots at left end and on right ridge. 2-bay right return has cross windows on ground floor and in identical half dormers; shaped gable to rear. C20 rear additions are not of interest. Nos. 1 to 12 (consecutive) form a continuous row.

Listing NGR: NZ2226737927

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