Forbury Hearnesbrook House

SU 70 NW HAVANT HAVANT ROAD Emsworth

4/48 No. 39 (Hearnesbrook House), and No. 41 (Forbury) II

Pair of houses, arranged symmetrically. 1805. Rendered front, stone with brick dressings and brickwork (painted); hipped slate roof. 2-storeyed, with a single-storeyed coupled porch joining the pair. Each unit has a symmetrical front (south) of 2 windows, rendered walling with plain eaves fascias and spaced coupled carved brackets to the wide eaves, stone cills, plain openings with frames for shutters. Sashes in reveals, with narrow side panes all round. The porchway has a Greek Doric Order, of a central column and 2 ½-columns, the interior walling being rusticated, and doorways having reeded architraves, enclosing a decorative fanlight and 4 panelled (2 topglazed) doors. The outer sides have single-storeyed wings of 1 window, and to the rear 2-storeyed wings, each with later but different additions. The rear elevations have a window below 2 roof hips, with stone walls and brick dressings. The interior (of No. 39) is virtually unaltered with architraves to doorways, a fine staircase with wreathed mahogany rail, fireplaces, and stone paving to the service quarter. At the rear there are narrow service structures, of stone, flint, brick and slate, with a 2-storeyed stable block (now a garage) to No. 39.

Listing NGR: SU6930305647