Stables To East Of Brook House

BITTERLEY

SO57NW MIDDLETON 482-1/5/94 Stables to east of Brook House

GV II

Stables with hayloft and living accommodation over, now agricultural outbuilding. Dated 1726. Brick, with rubble stone plinth with moulded brick cap, and with brick-coped gables. Plain-tile roof. Later C19 end and rear lean-to extensions. EXTERIOR: 2-storey and attic. South-west front is 5-window range of segmental-arched openings. Boarded openings at first floor with 2 openings brick-blocked. 3 boarded openings at ground level and 2 stable doors. Brick storey bands at first and second floors. Inset stone tablet with date 1726 and initials R S. Dovecote holes and ledges under eaves to left. Rear: plain boarded door with oak frame and C18 oak-framed mullion window with cyma-moulding to right covered by C19 lean-to at first-floor level built over brick-vaulted ground-floor retaining wall. INTERIOR: chamfered bridging beams with ogee chamfer stops at ground and first floors. Upper floors divided between hayloft to right and living accommodation to left. Roof of double trenched purlins with 3 upper cruck trusses: 2 closed trusses flanking one open truss; trusses with shouldered principals, cruck spurs, high collars, posts framing door-head, vertical struts and middle rail. Purlins and open truss members all chamfered. Attic door reusing C16 carved panelling.

Listing NGR: SO5417077596