Brize'S Lodge Farmhouse

RAMSDEN SP31NW 5/85 Brize's Lodge Farmhouse

• II

Farmhouse. Probably late C17, extended and probably altered in the late C18 or early C19, and further enlarged in the late C19. Coursed limestone rubble with stone dressings. c20 machine tile roof. Two-unit baffle-entry plan with later additions. Two storeys and gable-lit attic With later addition of one stormy and attic. South-east front: central brick ridge stack with weathering. Two-window front; C19 three-light wooden mullioned and transomed wooden casements with segmental stone-arched heads (late C20 ground-floor casement to left). Central half-glazed 4-panelled door (2 lower flush panels) with 2-part rectangular overlight and segmental stone-arched head. Probably c.1800 addition of one storey and attic set back to right with integral stone end stack, gabled semi-dormer with C20 two-headed wooden casement and half-glazed segmental-headed door to left. Rear of main range, has central 2-storey half-hipped staircase tower; 2-light wooden casements with wooden lintels. Late C19 stack. Interior: late C17 oak winder staircase to rear rising to attic, with probably late C18 Chinese Chippendale balustrade. Chamfered spine beans with ogee stops. Right-hand ground-floor room with blocked old fireplace and some C17 panelling in cupboard to right. First floor not inspected but occupant (April 1987) reports some panelling in bedrooms. The house has probably been refenestrated, refronted or even partly rebuilt in the late C18 or early C19, from which tine the staircase balustrade also seems to date. The window details of the lower addition are similar to those of the main block.

Listing NGR: SP3396215286