Warren Cottage Warren House

Warren Cottage and Warren House comprise a farmhouse and an attached cottage. The house dates from around 1745 and was built for Francis Cholmeley; the cottage was added in the mid-19th century. The house is constructed of sandstone, with ashlar facing, while the cottage is of coursed squared stone. Both have pantile roofs.

Warren House is a two-storey building with a loft, and has three bays. Attached to the right is a lower, two-storey, one-bay cottage. The house features a plinth, a first-floor band, and an eaves band. Window and door openings have cantilevered lintels with projecting keystones. The central door has six panels, the upper two glazed, above a three-pane overlight. There are sixteen-pane sash windows, originally with external shutters. Cast-iron and wrought-iron tie-rod plates are visible below the first-floor band and eaves band. The house has shaped kneelers, moulded ashlar coping, two 20th-century roof windows, and brick end stacks built upon 19th-century ashlar stacks. The cottage has a first-floor band and sixteen-pane sash windows, each with a flat arch above; it also has kneelers, ashlar coping and a brick end stack to the right.

At the rear of the house, window openings have similar lintels, and some small side-sliding sashes remain on the first floor. On the left return side, there are two loft windows. Architectural bands do not return around the rear or sides of the building.

The interior of Warren House includes six-panelled ground-floor doors. A ground-floor room to the right has a large segmental-arched kitchen fireplace with a round-arched cupboard to its right, fitted with a door of three fielded panels. First and second-floor doors are of two panels; some windows have panelled reveals. A turned-baluster dog-leg staircase continues up to the loft. The roof has principal-rafter trusses with queen struts on the collar.

Warren House was hastily rebuilt in 1745 following Francis Cholmeley’s marriage, to provide a temporary dwelling for his bride while Brandsby Hall was under construction. Workmen had demolished more than was originally intended, leaving only two rooms habitable.