Description

BROCKHAMPTON BY ROSS CP
SO 53 SE
1/10 Brockhampton Court Hotel
GV II

Country house, now hotel. C18 core of former rectory substantially obscured
and rebuilt 1879 by Middleton and Sars; and 1893 by Faulkner Armitage of
Manchester. Coursed add dressed sandstone rubble and part sandstone ashlar
with further ashlar dressings, slate roof. Neo-Tudor style. Irregular plan
with basically rectangular house of 1879 facing west, extended to north and
to north-west in 1893; entrance toward centre of west front, axial and gable-
end stacks. Two storeys, cellars and attics; plinth, two roll moulded string
courses, embattled parapets to porch and tower, raised verges and gables with
finials, rusticated quoins, mullioned and mullioned and transomed windows
with square headed labels to later section, many casement windows retain
latticed leading. West front: 4-light mullioned and transomed window below
gable and similar window to left of forward projecting tower with 4-light
mullioned windows, decorative strapwork frieze and surface panelled decoration
below parapet, date of 1893 in lozenge with further sculptural detail above
second floor; gable projecting alongside tower with 2-light window and 4-light
window to floors below; dormer with 2-light casement window, 4-light window to
second floor, forward projecting single-storey porch with 4-centred arched
headed doorway with decorative panelled frieze above, double doors with
decorative hinges, glazed inner door; section to right of porch dated 1873,
gable with two single lights and central stack projecting slightly from second
floor; three further mullioned windows to right. (BoE, p 91; Burke's and
Saville's Guide to Country Houses, Vol II, 1980, p 8).

Listing NGR: SO5979431701

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26391415

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Nottinghamshire (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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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings