Brayne Court

SO 61 SE LITTLEDEAN HIGH STREET (east side)

10/101 Brayne Court (formerly listed as The Red House) 23.9.55

II

House: C16, C17, early C19. Mainly roughly-squared red sandstone, roughly coursing: oldest wall random rubble: timber- framed porch block with wattle and daub infil; tiled roofs with scalloped bargeboards. Rambling 'L' plan, back to road, 2 storey with attics: part cellar. Entrance on garden face, 2 storey gabled porch, jettied at 1st floor, 2-panel timber-frame per floor. To left, gabled stone block, square bay with lean-to roof, 3-light hollow-chamfer oak casements with timber lintels; blocked cellar window below, small attic window above bay. To right high block, 2 windows wide, with 2 stone dormers: timber lintels to windows. Ground floor 2 mullion and transom windows, as French doors, buttresses between, with, to right a single-storey stone bay with 2-light wooden-mullion and transom window divided with wooden glazing bars into octagonal panes, coloured glass in small squares between. Beyond a 2 storey lean-to. To road high block has central gable with wide chimney; to its left a slight set back, with one first floor window only; beyond gabled extension projects slightly: blocked door at ground floor. To right of chimney a 3- light wooden mullion and transom oriel window. A lower block behind porch set back slightly: lower two-thirds wall oldest part of house: 2-light stone-mullioned window with hollow chamfer moulding; blocked door below. Further right, beyond rendered gable, a heavy ovolo-moulded door frame with boarded door. Interior: dog-leg stair with panelled newels. Room to left has C17 dust-ledge panelling, 5-panels high, scratch-mouldings to panelled door, stone fireplace with depressed ogee-head. Main room on right heavy longitudinal ovolo-moulded beam, supported by 2 plain cross beams, possibly inserted when original partition on line of bay removed. Stone fireplace, hollow-chamfer moulding with Tudor arch, deep lintel above with one row of diamond-shaped pellets. Jacobean-style C19 panelling to fireplace wall, with row of possible C16 carved panels inset. First floor, 2 reeded door surrounds, first half C19, one embellished with 2 figures carrying shields. Bolection-moulded fireplace in room with oriel window. Said to have been used as pin factory in C18.

Listing NGR: SO6675913694