Osbrooks

CAPEL C.P. HORSHAM ROAD TQ 13NE 11/72 Osbrooks 11/11/66 II

House. C17, extended to right and restored in early C20 by Detmar Blow. Timber framed with herringbone brick infilling, C20 extensions in similar style, plain tiled roofs. Original house half-H shaped with projecting end wings, now with projecting extensions to right and left. Two storeys, extensions to left single storey. Corbelled diagonal stacks on ridge plinths, triple to left of centre, double and single copies in ends of right hand extension and to ridge of left hand end. Queen-post trusses to gable ends; diamond-pane leaded casement fenestration, one window on each floor of left hand gable and right hand gable. Gabled square bay projecting shallowly from large,gabled bay to right of centre with one 3-light,diamond-pane first floor and one 6-light,mullioned and tran- somed window on ground floor. Two, 2-light first floor windows under eaves, left of centre,and one 3-light window to ground floor. Central,gabled,single storey porch with turned balusters over plinth walls on sides; studded door. Single storey range to left with gable window and gable over diamond-pane window on return wall. Two storey range to right with square-bay motif under gable,on larger scale porch with further door in angle with old house. Rear:- triple diagonal stacks to left and right. Galleted sandstone blocks and plinth walls, moulded brick-on-edge plat bands over ground floor. Some old glass and original frames to rear windows.

PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.131.

Listing NGR: TQ1672138356