Bracon Lodge

Bracon Lodge is an 18th-century former farmhouse that was re-faced and refurbished around 1800. The building is constructed of brick, with a gault brick facade and pantiled roofs. It has a continuous outshut to the rear with a catslide roof. The main block is three storeys high and has five bays of sash windows, with smaller windows on the top floor, all with glazing bars beneath skewback arches. The central bay is slightly advanced and features a pedimented porch with a Roman Doric design – segmental in plan; it has four columns, two of which are engaged, and a frieze with triglyphs. A two-leaf panelled door is flanked by narrow windows, and a fine traceried fanlight sits above. A bracketed cornice runs along the top of the building and there are two large chimney stacks to the rear of the main block. A later gault brick two-storeyed canted bay has been added to the south side. Inside, the entrance hall contains a fine sweeping staircase and landing with thin square-sectioned balusters and a mahogany handrail. A service stair features attenuated vase-shaped turned balusters. Doors are panelled with raised and fielded sections; some architraves include angle paterae.