Brackenburgh

NY 43 NE HESKET BRACKENBURGH

10/148 Brackenburgh

27.12.67

II

House divided into 2 dwellings. Inscribed and dated with Harris coat-of-arms MY PRINCE AND MY COUNTRY, 1902, by Sir Robert Lorimer for Joseph Harris, with minor 1960 alterations (including demolition of servants' wing). Dressed cream Lazonby sandstone walls with parapets and flush quoins. Graduated greenslate roof with banded ashlar sandstone chimney stacks. Large country house of 2 storeys of numerous bays in L-shape. Garden facade has, left to right: projecting dining room, music room and hall with intervening round-arched loggia in front of boudoir; at right the right-angled office range is now divided off as a separate property. Various large transomed and mullioned windows some of them canted bay windows. Rear entrance facade has high projecting central 5 bays, left billiard room converted to garage and right 3-bay section now blank walls after demolition of projecting wing. Left double plank doors in round arch under crested coat-of-arms, with pilasters carried up to string course and over oriel window with flanking lions, all under a shell hood. Large transomed and mullioned window; further doorways and 2-light windows on 3 levels. Left polygonal angle turret and various mullioned windows on 2 levels. Right wing has 2- and 4-light windows. Orangery connects with The Old Tower. See Christopher Hussey, The Work of Sir Robert Lorimer, 1931, pp.40-1.

Listing NGR: NY4758738417