Description

BROMSBERROW - SO 73 SE 6/2 Bromsberrow Place (formerly listed as part of Bromsberrow Place with stables 2.10.54 and lodge)

GV II*

Country house. Third quarter C18 by Ferdinando Stratford for R.D. Yate; reconstructed c1825, probably by Basevi for Osman Ricardo. Render lined as ashlar, slate roof. Seven-window, 2-storey front, 2-room deep, rear 3-storey in same height, short wing on left at back; single-storey wing left front. Entrance front Greek Revival; projecting centre, single-storey porch and front, 4 fluted Doric columns, plain cornice, flat roof: behind 6-panel double doors, eared architrave, single-light marginal light window each side and in returns. Either side paving against wall, plain plinth, string course at sill level; to left 3 sashes, to right three 2-light casements, each with blind box with 3 lozenges on face, all in plain surround, supporting moulded cornice over each. Ends rusticated slight projection, as base for plain paired pilasters first floor. Left bay marginal light window in rustication, one above other. Above, plain string course; three 16-pane sashes each side a little above, surround and cornice as below; centre 2-light casement, plain surround, pediment over. All first floor windows sliding louvred shutters in frame rising from string course. Plain cornice and parapet above; centre taken up square, balustrade to front between plain end blocks, centre block with fielded panel. Roof hipped at ends; chimneys on ends and either side centre on right. On left projecting wing, 3 sash windows between plain pilasters, wall carried up as high parapet to hide billiard room rooflight. Rear: slightly inset centre, central half-glazed door up 2 stone steps, 2 fielded panels below, fielded panels to reveals, architrave, consoles to pediment. Sash window each side, over semi-circular covers to cellar openings. On left lower 2 floors covered by conservatory: brick wall projects, forming its back; on right half-glazed door down 2 steps, rectangular fanlight, sash beyond. On right projecting wing, 2 sashes in end. First floor 3 sashes in recessed centre, 2 each projection on right: moulded string above. Second floor three 6- pane sashes centre, plain surrounds, supporting moulded cornice over each: 2 sashes either side and in projecting wing. Cornice and plain parapet above. Conservatory: 8 bays at garden, attenuated cast-iron fluted Doric columns with plain cast-iron cornice, up 2 stone steps; between columns tall glazed doors with low, panelled bases. Glass roof above. Internally stone paved floor, no trusses, iron ties across at intervals. Interior: main entrance, 3 bay Corinthian screen, columns between piers, 2 steps up. Panelled dado, plaster panelling and moulded cornice above: 6-fielded panel doors, moulded architraves, acanthus and shell cornice. Drawing room to right: fluted dado rail, moulded plaster cornice: fluting to fielding on panels in doors and shutters: leaf frieze over door surround. Fireplace paired column ends, capitals 2 tiers flat acanthus with rams' heads as Corinthian variant: cornice decorated swags and lyres. Cambered arch in end wall, palmettes in spandrels, semi-circular niches in sides, French doors to Doric porch beyond. Dining room to left, moulded dado rail, fluted fielding to door and shutter panels; door surround as drawing room. Cornice with alternating urns and scrolls. Fireplace grey marble, tapering panelled pilasters to sides, ornate cast-iron grate. Above large mirror in simply moulded gilt surround. End bay marked off by paired unfluted Corinthian pilasters each side, echoed on end wall. Billiard room beyond, moulded plaster cornice: probably later varnished fielded dado panelling and shutters. Circular stair hall beyond main hall: moulded handrail ramped to newels, turned balusters with square knobs, cut string with fretwork ends to treads: octagonal opening for rooflight, rectangular one since superimposed. Panelled plaster ceiling below with small repeated pointed cross-vault cornice below. Six-panel doors off, eared surrounds in corridor to right. Fireplace over entrance hall eared surround, scrolls up outside, carved head in centre of lintel, bow and quiver crossed behind, leaves each side. Rear hall behind stairs 2 elliptical arches towards front, panelled soffits: dogleg stair with winders to rear first floor, turned balusters, cut string, moulded handrail. Originally Hook Farm, rebuilt as Bromsberrow Place for R.D. Yate after 1760 (1772 on one reset rainwater head), completed by his son. Front refaced and conservatory added c1825. (D. Verey, Gloucestershire, the Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970; H. Colvin, Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1978; S. Rudder, A New History of Gloucestershire, 1779; R. Bigland, Collections relative to County of Gloucester, 1791; B. Little, in Gloucestershire Countryside, Nov. 1961.)

Listing NGR: SO7571234275

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