Bradmore House, Queen Caroline Street

MATERIALS: buff stock brick with cut and rubbed red brick dressings; Portland stone.

EXTERIOR: symmetrical façade of two-storeys and seven-bays. Semi-circular headed windows with multi-pane sash windows. The central three bays are taller and slightly advanced, flanked by giant stone fluted pilasters of the Composite order; the central bay again breaks forward slightly. The brick entablature (restored in 1994) is upswept; the three central bays are surmounted by a stone balustraded parapet with urns. A perron stair (added 1994) leads up to central round-arched entrance with a moulded cornice; the window above is set within a pilastered surround with a Doric frieze. The wings each have stone Doric angle pilasters.

Only the facade and the first floor room (described below) is of special interest; the building of the 1990s to the rear is not of special interest.

INTERIOR: the first-floor south-west room has full-height raised and fielded panelling, moulded dado rails and three panelled doors set in tall round arches with panelled tympana, some elements of which are reproduction. The doors and windows are framed by Composite pilasters. The cornice and the spandrels of the door and window arches are elaborately enriched with carved foliage.