Old Bracknell House

Old Bracknell House is a large detached house, now used as offices, dating from the early 18th century. It has undergone alterations in the early 19th century, with extensions added around 1879 and in the mid-20th century.

The building has a rectangular plan that was originally composed of four cells but now appears irregular due to the extensions to the northeast and southwest. It stands two storeys tall with attics and cellars. The northwest entrance front, which is the 18th-century section, features painted brickwork in header bond, a first-floor platband, and a slightly projecting central bay. The roof is covered with old tiles. There are five windows on this facade, and the entrance is marked by an early 19th-century semicircular Doric porch that leads to a part-glazed door with stained glass sidelights and an elliptical spider web pattern fanlight. The windows are segmental arched 6/6 unhorned recessed sashes, with a central first-floor sash that is tripartite, flanked by pilaster jambs and mullions. A parapet crowns this section. To the left, there is a later extension that matches the style, featuring a sash window on the ground floor and a 20th-century single light window to the left.

The 1879 extension on the right side is constructed of brick with a mostly tile-hung first floor that displays fish scale patterning and half-timbered gables, all painted. The gabled roofs are covered with old tiles and feature bargeboards, crested ridge tiles, terracotta finials, and tall enriched chimney stacks. This extension has three sashes on the northwest front and a two-storey, four-light bay window on the right-hand return, which includes transoms and mullions, a penthouse roof, and a first-floor fretwork apron. The garden front has half-timbered bays on the first floor with a fretwork frieze and a round-arched, margin-glazed stair window.

Inside, the house retains many original features, including an open string staircase with moulded tread ends, turned balusters, and a large square newel post with panelled insets and a ball finial. There are also original chimneypieces, doors, cornices, window surrounds, and shutters, along with a tripartite sash window on the first floor. The 1879 extension includes colonette doorcases leading to linenfold panelled doors, colonette window surrounds, and a matching chimneypiece with a carved sunflower niche overmantle. Some windows feature stained glass.