Braishfield Manor House

BRAISHFIELD PAYNES HAY ROAD SU 32 NE 5/10 Braishfield Manor House (formerly listed as 29.5.57 Braishfield Manor)

GV II*

Medium sized country house. Mid C18 central block, wings added early C20. Brick old plain tile roof. 2 storeys and attic, 5 bay double pile centre part, early C20 end wings 2 bays wide, 3 long, to form H-shape. Front has slightly projecting wide central bay with 6-panel door and semi-circular fanlight in large doorcase of Doric pilasters and entablature, broken forward over pilasters and flanked by narrow windows. Over, large roundheaded window that breaks cornice, flanked by plastered niches with keys 2 bays each side have 12-pane segmental head sashes under ribbed brick arches with keyblocks and rubbed brick aprons with guttae. Wings have 12-pane segmental head sashes under similar arches with similar niches between 1st floor windows. Continuous modillioned timber cornice. Hipped roofs to wings which have higher ridges. Gabled 2-light leaded dormers above 3 centre bays and in centre of wings hips. Above end bays of centre blocks, early C20 stacks each side of ridge joined by brick arch built on inside of stacks, between them, supporting moulded head which links them. 2 sorey angular bay on R end. Interior mainly early C20 enhancement of C18 rooms.

Listing NGR: SP2574426888