The Close

SE 3696-3796 BROMPTON NORTHALLERTON ROAD (west side)

12/21 The Close

GV II

House, now a children's home. 1895. By Walter H Brierley. Jacobean in style. Red brick, ashlar dressings, plain tile roof. L-shaped in plan, main front with service wing at right angle to rear left. Main front: 2 storeys with attics, 4 bays. Plinth to sill level with brick coping. central board and stud door in quoined chamfered 4-centred arched surround. Outer bays have full-height canted bay windows with parapets, 5-light . double-chamfered mullion-and-transom windows with single side lights to ground floor, above 5-light mullioned windows. To left of door a 5-light double-chamfered mullion-and-transom window, to right of door a 7-light mullioned window with 2 major mullions. On first floor the 2 central bays have 6-light double-chamfered mullioned windows. Above canted bays, 2-light flat-headed dormers. To central 2 bays near the ridge are 2 smaller 2-light dormers. Stone coping with parapet stretching round to bay windows. External gable stacks and large stack to central ridge. Service wing to right-hand side: main entrance porch with embattled parapet to left, chamfered round-arched doorway with 2 stone crests above and cornice, to its right a 3-light chamfered mullioned window. Similar 2-light window to far left beyond tapering stack. To right, 6 bays with various casement windows. Interior: large inglenook fireplace in panelled dining-room. 2 other original fireplaces downstairs.

Listing NGR: SE3744896310