Inglenook

BROMPTON-ON-SWALE RICHMOND ROAD SE 2099-2199 (south side)

11/12 No 15 (Inglenook) (formerly listed as 4.2.69 Inglenook, Front Street)

GV II

House. c1733, possibly earlier in origin. Coursed rubble, pantile roof with course of stone slates at eaves. 2 storeys, 2 first-floor windows. Quoins. Central part-glazed 4-panel door in ashlar architrave with tripartite keystone within ashlar pedimented door-case with Roman Doric pilasters and triglyphs to frieze. 4-pane sash windows in plain ashlar surrounds. Shaped kneelers, ashlar copings. Brick end stacks. Interior: in ground-floor room to left, inglenook fireplace with spere to right, salt- box in recess to left with fielded-panel door and butterfly hinges. Stop- chamfered beams. Splat-baluster staircase with decorated plaster ceiling to stairwell, with circular panel and dentilled cornice with acanthus motif. Doors of 3 fielded panels on first-floor landing. In first-floor left front room, staircase to roof-space winds tightly round in recess to left of chimney-stack. The deeds of the house go back to 1733, which date fits the facade well, but the building may be older. It is said to have been once an inn, and there is a small cellar below the staircase, and unusually wide doors in the passage leading from behind the spere to the back kitchen. One internal door had "Taproom" painted on it. There is a well in the garden. There is a local tradition that the unusually elaborate door-case was retrieved from the extensive Roman settlement of Catteractonium, very close by.

Listing NGR: SE2183699662