Home Farmhouse And Farm Buildings Attached To North East Corner Of Brympton House

ST51NW BRYMPTON D'EVERCY CP ST5115 10/14 Home Farmhouse and farm 13/14 buildings, attached to north-east corner of Brympton House formerly listed as Brympton (House) Farm Buildings) 19.4.61 GV II* Farmhouse. C18 and later, but possibly incorporating earlier fragments. Ham stone ashlar; stone slate roofs between coped gables; stone chimney stacks. L-plan, Two storeys with attic. South elevation 8 bays. Continuous string between floors; hollow-chamfered mullioned windows in chamfered recesses, mostly 2-light, but 4-light both levels bay 5 and lower bay 8, 3-light to upper bay 8; labels to upper windows, all rectangular leaded panes; bay 3 in form of projecting porch with flat arched doorway and attic window in gable; chamfered cambered-arched door between lower bays 6/7: datestone of 1722 in gable of porch. Main section of east return of 3 bays, of which bay 1 is a gable end with 2+4+2 light square bay window to ground floor under hipped stone slate roof, 3-light window to first floor and 2-light to attic, both with labels, and circular vent to roof space; bay 2 has 2-light window above and 4-light window below; thereafter a secondary entrance and various farm buildings, starting as 2 storey and climbing up sloping ground, ending in 2-storey granary with hipped stone slate roof, with doorways at both levels on east side. Interior not seen. Part of the c1720s addition to Brympton House (q.v), and thus of considerable significance. (Country Life, 26th November, 1898, 30th November, 1907 and especially Hussey, C 7 and 14 May 1927; Clive F'onsonby- Fane, C %ryajton D'Evercy, Bryapton Estates, l980).

Listing NGR: ST5200115443