Patcham Court Farmhouse

BRIGHTON

TQ3009SW VALE AVENUE, Patcham 577-1/15/1030 (South side) 13/10/52 No.133 Patcham Court Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. Early C17, altered and enlarged, notably by the extension of the southern range westwards in 1971, to the designs of the owner, John B Denman. Flint with brick dressings, tile-hanging, roof of tiles. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. The earlier part of the building is L-shaped, the longer, entrance wing running east-west, with a shorter, north-south wing at its western end. Brick quoins and brick dressings. Flat-arched entrance in north front, whose architrave is detailed like an elaborate bolection-moulding; panelled door with glazed upper panel; 2 flat-arched windows with casements to this front on ground and first floors; the cross-wing has only an oculus on its east front, and the gabled north front is blank apart from brick quoins and brickwork detail of central stack. On its west front this wing has 2 sash windows on both floors. The extension, facing north, has a flat-arched entrance to ground floor with moulded architrave, broken pediment and panelled door with glazed upper panel; brick banding to the flint at ground floor level; 2 sash-windows to the first floor and then a tile-hung half-hipped wing with 3 sash-windows facing north and a half-hipped dormer facing west; small, half-hipped garage west of that. East front is tile-hung and half-hipped with 2-span hipped-roofed garage. On the south front, there is a catslide roof to the east end over a flat-arched window, with one half-hipped dormer; and the rest of the range is of flint with brick dressings to the ground floor, with sash windows, with a jettied tile-hung first floor having casement windows; 2 stacks in the slope of the roof, one end stack. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ3019409158