Description

1.
5280 BRASTED BRASTED
High Street
(Off North Side)
Park Farmhouse
TQ 4655 1/43

II GV

2.
1703. Original house of 2 storeys 5 windows altered in C19 to wide, single
side windows. The original 1st floor centre window remains with cut, carved
gauged brick arch. Hipped tiled roof with end£chimneys and C19 hipped tiled
dormer. Red brick with diaper of blue headers except where old window places
have been filled with plain red brick. 1st floor band at sides and back, mostly
removed on front. Coursed rubble plinth, red brick quoins and coping. At sides
wide sash windows under segmental arches. Fire insurance sign over 1st floor
centre window. Below it stone plaque inscribed: "This farm house was built
by Thomas Lord Dacre, Earl of Sussex, in the year 1703". Modern pent porch
to early C19 6-panel door in old moulded wood frame. Inside late Cl7 staircase
with urn-turned balusters, square newels, solid string and wide handrail, said
to have been brought from Chevening Park.

Park Farm, the 2 Oubuildings and Wall form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ4609055125

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26374479

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Recommended Books

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)