Brackla House

Circa 1815 with mid-19th century villa with additional east

and west wings, forming cruciform plan. 2-storey house over

raised basement, symmetrical 3-bay frontage. Rubble with

tooled ashlar dressings.

Main south front; centre door with side lights and fanlight

approached by semi-circular flight shallow steps oversailing

raised basement. Corniced portico supported by paired slender Roman-Doric columns (2 pairs), flanked by tall outer bay

windows. 3-bay side elevations each have short projecting

later centre wings, to west with large corbelled oriel window

in ground floor and jerkin headed gable head; mainly 12-pane

glazing. 4 symmetrical batteries of ridge stacks, those to

front linked by continuous cornice and all with cast-iron

cans; shallow piended slate roofs, with rear valley. Garage

doors slapped in east elevation of raised basement.

Interior: drawing room (west) and dining room have decorative

plaster cornices, Greek key-patterned in drawing room and egg

and dart in dining room.

Coped rubble walled garden with brick lining.