Brook End And Attached Walls And Terrace

HENLEY-IN-ARDEN

SP1465 NEW ROAD 652-1/11/118 (North side) 05/04/67 Brook End and attached walls and terrace

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House and attached stable range and wall. 1909. By CFA Voysey for the Misses Knight of Barrells Hall. Roughcast with sandstone ashlar and brick dressings; steeply pitched slate roof with brick end stack, stack in slope of roof and cross-axial stack, all with tall pots. 3-unit plan. EXTERIOR: single-storey plus attic; 4-window range. Entrance in canted projection to right of centre has open gabled brick porch with brick piers to ashlar pointed arch, bands and lozenge with initials; plank door with strap hinges. Flush-faced mullioned windows: 3-light window to each side of pair of 4-light windows to left of porch, which has side lights, and 3-light window to right end; attached pair of gabled roof dormers with 4-light casements; all have leaded glazing. Left return has lean-to outshut below two 3-light windows under drip-course, and drip-course to gable; attached stable range with hipped roof and stack; 2 coach entrances have paired plank doors with strap hinges; similar stable door to left has flanking 2-light mullioned windows, and entrance with similar door to right end, with 2-light window to left, leads to through passage along side of outshut, which has entrance to house. Right return has canted conservatory projecting between 2 flat-roofed 3-light bay windows with two 2- plus 2-light windows above. Rear has catslide outshut with gable to 3-light transomed window. INTERIOR: not inspected, but believed to have Voysey fittings, octagonal library and octagonal dining room, and conservatory. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: wall attached to outshut projects with round-arched gateway then returns to cross front of stable range, with paired plank gates under archway, and later garage with swept roof and entrance with paired doors to front gable; similar wall with arched gateway to return attached to other end of house, which stretches round 3 sides of a garden to the right of the house; terrace with rubble walling and steps with ball finials connects 2 walls and the porch. (Simpson D: CFA Voysey: An Architect of Individuality: London: 1979-: 106).

Listing NGR: SP1489865558