Brambridge House

Brambridge House is a large country house, dating to approximately 1762, incorporating an earlier building and remodelled after a fire in 1872 by M. Digby-Wyatt. It is constructed of stuccoed brick with a slate roof. The house is a three-storey, nine-bay double pile structure in an H-shape, with a river frontage and rooms set back behind single-storey 19th-century pavilions. The 18th-century garden front remains largely unaltered, except for added stucco dressings. The central three-storey, five-bay section is flanked by two-bay projections. A colonnade of six fluted Doric columns, with a simplified entablature and iron railings above a first-floor balcony, sits between the wings; a door was originally in the left bay of the centre part. The ground floor features French windows, and tall casements with low sills are present in the wings and along the first floor, each with a blind box. Smaller windows are similarly designed on the second floor. Rusticated quoins and string courses mark the sill levels of the first and second-floor windows, topped by a heavily modillioned cornice and a low parapet adorned with urns at the corners. The roof is hipped with stacks on the end walls and at the left end of the central section, as well as between the right bays of the central section. The river side of the house was rebuilt to three storeys over a cellar, with a seven-bay facade and three-bay pavilions at each end projecting forward half a bay. A single-storey porch with a cartouche over it is situated in front of the centre bay, also in stucco. The interior was altered during conversion to flats. A large entrance and staircase hall were designed by Wyatt. Inside, facing the garden front, the central bays contain a narrow entrance hall with a late 18th-century ceiling and a large drawing room with a similar ceiling and contemporary fireplace, both retaining original paint and featuring details in the Adam style.