Kennels And Chimney Stack, Farmsteading, Brieryhill

Kennels and Chimney Stack, Farmsteading, Brieryhill

A mid-19th century farmhouse with extensive later 19th century alterations and additions, comprising a two-storey three-bay house with an adjoining U-plan kennel block adjacent to a steading courtyard to the north-west.

The main house has a rendered south elevation with droved ashlar canted windows, a harled north-east elevation with droved ashlar dressings, and harl-pointed rubble walls to the north-west and south-west. Each storey of the canted windows to the south-east elevation has a cill course, with cornice and blocking course above.

The south-east elevation features a modern central door with a first-floor window above, and full-height windows in the flanking bays. The north-west elevation has two gabled bays with a single-storey addition projecting between them. The south-west elevation is two bays, with a gabled blank bay to the right and bipartite windows to each floor of the bay to the left; a boarded door sits to the outer left of the addition with a window to the outer right. The north-east elevation is two bays, with a gabled bay to the left (blank except for a small ground-floor window at the outer right), a door in the bay to the right with a first-floor window above, and a now-blank window to the left; a further window lies to the left of centre in the addition.

Windows vary in type, including plate glass timber sash and case windows to the south-east elevation and four-pane and twelve-pane timber sash and case windows throughout. The roof is slated. Two modern rooflights light the south-east elevation. Wallhead brick stacks sit to either side of the south-east elevation, with additional wallhead stacks at each gable of the north-west elevation.

The stable block lies to the west of the house, forming the west range of the U-plan court with kennels. It is built of coursed roughly stugged sandstone with droved dressings to the south-east and south-west elevations and harl-pointed rubble walls to the north-east. The south-east elevation is a broad gabled single bay with a segmental-arched opening at ground, fitted with a boarded door and partially glazed surround, and a tripartite window in the gablehead above. The north-east elevation has vents at eaves to each bay and a segmental-arched blinded opening to the outer right. The interior contains boarded gates and stalls with cast-iron troughs.

The kennels are single-storey with attic accommodation for four kennels. The south-east elevation has each with forecourts and tall rubble walls fronted by modern iron gates, with piended dormers to each; two single-storey sheds sit to the south-east at the outer right, each with boarded two-leaf doors. The north-west elevation has four irregularly positioned bays, each with piended dormers at attic level, blinded door openings to the inner right and outer left, a boarded door in the bay to the inner left and to the left of the outer left, and a blank bay to the outer right.

The courtyard is enclosed by ranges to the north-east, south-west and north-west. The north-east range's south-west elevation is four bays (three grouped to the right), with a round-arched opening corbelled at the springer in a gabled bay to the inner right, split boarded doors in each of the flanking bays and a window to the left of the door in the bay to the inner left, and a segmental-arched opening (now partially blinded with a sliding iron gate) and window to the right in the bay to the outer left. The north-east range's north-east elevation is seven bays with advanced outer bays, a round-arched gabled bay at centre leading to the courtyard, a blank bay to the inner right, a boarded door with window to the left in the bay to the inner left, segmental-arched openings with boarded two-leaf doors in the penultimate bays to both right and left (the latter with a window to the immediate right), a segmental-arched opening with two-leaf boarded door in the gabled bay to the outer right, and a boarded door with window to the immediate right in the gabled bay to the outer left (end wall of shed).

The north-west range's south-east elevation has four bays to the left (a two-storey building) and a single bay to the right (single-storey). Four segmental-arched openings sit to the left, all blinded except in the bay to the outer left (which has a timber door at centre), each with a window at first-floor above. A modern timber lean-to addition occupies the re-entrant west angle of the courtyard, with a blinded door opening to the right. The north-west range's north-west elevation is seven bays with advanced gabled outer bays. Single-storey two bays occupy the outer left, with the remaining bays all two-storey. Windows at first-floor sit above each of the regularly-disposed central four-bay group; boarded doors lie at the inner bay to the right and the penultimate bay to the right (two-leaf door). A cart or implement shed supported by paired cast-iron columns stands at ground level in the bays to centre and inner right. A boarded door sits in the penultimate bay to the left, a window in the bay to the outer left, and windows to each floor of the bay to the outer right.

The south-west range's north-east elevation is six bays with an entrance to a pend at the outer left, fitted with an iron gate. Windows sit in each bay except the inner left (which has a two-leaf boarded door with rectangular fanlight above) and the outer right (fitted with a boarded timber addition to the return angle). Piended dormer windows sit at the penultimate bay to the left, inner bay to the right and penultimate bay to the right, with a window below eaves in the outer bay to the right. The south-west range's south-west elevation is eight bays. A single-storey two-bay section to the outer right, set back, has a blinded segmental-arched opening in each bay, with a split boarded door in the bay to the outer right. A window sits to each floor of the penultimate bay to the left, breaking the eaves at first-floor. The third bay from the left is advanced and gabled with a round-arched opening and window above. Two bays to the immediate right are each gabled and slate-hung at first-floor level, with two windows at ground and one at first-floor above. A window and boarded sliding door (entrance to pend) sit in the third bay from the right.

A cream brick circular-plan stalk with coping stands to the south-west. Various fenestration types are deployed throughout, including half-glazed, half-vented openings to the granary and sixteen-pane timber sash and case windows. The slate roof covers most of the steading, with corrugated asphalt covering the stable block.