Breck Farm House

THORNAGE - TG 03 NW 1/110 Breck Farm House GV II

House, c1800, with earlier ranges to rear. Gault brick. Shallow pitched hipped roof of black glazed pantiles. 3 windows. 2 storeys and cellar. Moulded brick cap to shallow brick plinth. Wide moulded brick cornice. Clasping brick pilasters. Sashes with glazing bars, 3 x 3 panes, stone sills, skewback flat arches. Double leaved central door, margin lights to glazed upper part. Classical doorcase: wide fluted tapering square pilasters; Roman Doric entablature. Right hand return wall rendered. Left hand return wall gault brick. Staircase outshut to rear. Interior: right hand room: marble fireplace with square pilasters; semicircular headed iron grate with cartouches to head and side incorporating bust; semicircular roller cinder grate. Roll moulded arch at rear of central bay to staircase. Open string dogleg staircase with winders, wreathed mahogany rail supported by bobbin turned newel, square sectioned wood balusters. Cellar: some flint footings, run out chamfer stops to beam. Rear: double width wing of 2 storeys beneath asymmetrical roof with pantiles to south-west, black glazed pantiles to north-east; north east facade continues right hand return of house, rendered brick colourwashed and scored, one door, five casements mostly of 2 lights, some leaded with pintle hinges. South-west facade: pebble -flint with C17 brick dressings. Upper wall raised in brick with coloured headers. 2 cells. Central door. 3-light casements to ground floor with some leaded panes and pintle hinges. Interior: central dividing wall once external. Large paving tiles to south-west. Ogee and bar stopped chamfers to beams. Forms a group with barn and cart shed.

Listing NGR: TG0467738336