Brockle Farmhouse

SOUTH PETHERWIN - SX38SW Brockle Farmhouse 2/2 GV II Farmhouse. Circa 1700, possibly a remodelling of an earlier house, with C19 additions and alterations. Rendered stone rubble. Slate hung porch and rear outshut. Rag slate roof with gabled ends and C19 crested ridge tiles. Rendered gable end and axial stacks. Long 5-room plan house with outshut at rear to left and right. 2 storeys. Not quite symmetrical 3 window south east front. C19 sashes with glazing bars, 16-panes to right and 20 pane sashes to left; first floor left hand sash breaks eaves; slate sills. To right of centre a gabled 2- storey porch, slate-hung on first floor with C19 16-pane sash and glazed on ground floor with Cl9 half-glazed door with intersecting glazing bars in fanlight. On left, set back slightly with lower roof level a single storey and other range with C20 plastic windows and C20 painted brick porch. At right hand end a small C20 single storey outshut. The main roof is carried down at rear over 2 storey outshuts. Left hand outshuts is slate hung and has horizontally sliding sash with glazing bars and C29 star window with stained glass margin faces. Between the outshuts a 16-pane sash on first floor. Interior: The lower right hand room is a fine parlour with bolection moulded panelling and bolection chimneypiece and cornice over door. Hall has bolection moulded panelled door and good circa 1700 dog-leg staircase with pulvinated and cyma-moulded string, square newels, twisted balusters and moulded handrail. Left hand room in main range has simple late C19 chimneypiece with console brackets and C18 2-panel door to later second stairs. First floor and roof structure not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX3154380671