Braboeuf Manor

SU 94 NE ARTINGTON C.P. OLD PORTSMOUTH ROAD

3/51 Braboeuf Manor

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Manor house, now administration block for College of Law. Late c16, circa 1590, with C19 front and C20 extensions to left and rear. Timber- framed core with Bargate stone front and sandstone dressings. Plain tiled roofs. Main range with gabled wing to front left. Four gabled wings at right angles to rear and extensions set back to left. Two storeys with attics in gable to left and under two gabled casement dormers to right. Corbelled end stacks to right and left, further stacks to rear. Stone dressed, mullioned, casement fenestration, those windows on ground floor with stone transomes. Regular facade of three windows to both floors with additional first floor window over projecting, two storey gabled entrance bay to left of centre. Domed wood cupola above. Stone dressed chamfered and moulded door surround, arched, to porch recess with panelled door behind. Single storey angle bay window projecting to end left from extensions set back to left. Two storey range behind with arched casement fenestration and end stacks. Further extensions to left, C20, not included.

Interior: Extensive C17 and C20 panelling in ground floor rooms. Chamfered spine beams and joists in ceilings exposed: Two good C17 overmantles to fireplaces, panelled with strapwork and foliage decorations, some figure carving. Fireplace in former library particularly notable: en gadrooned base over stone fire surround with triple arched arcaded top on squat Ionic pilasters and scrolls in decorated entrabature. Squat figures to scroll pedestals. Further panelled and plasterwork ceilings.

PEVSNER: Buildings of England, Surrey, (1971) p 293.

Listing NGR: SU9904648172