Description

SO 61 SE LITTLEDEAN HIGH STREET
(east side)

10/101 Brayne Court
(formerly listed as The Red House)
23.9.55

II

House: C16, C17, early C19. Mainly roughly-squared red
sandstone, roughly coursing: oldest wall random rubble: timber-
framed porch block with wattle and daub infil; tiled roofs with
scalloped bargeboards. Rambling 'L' plan, back to road, 2 storey
with attics: part cellar. Entrance on garden face, 2 storey
gabled porch, jettied at 1st floor, 2-panel timber-frame per floor.
To left, gabled stone block, square bay with lean-to roof, 3-light
hollow-chamfer oak casements with timber lintels; blocked cellar
window below, small attic window above bay. To right high block,
2 windows wide, with 2 stone dormers: timber lintels to windows.
Ground floor 2 mullion and transom windows, as French doors,
buttresses between, with, to right a single-storey stone bay with
2-light wooden-mullion and transom window divided with wooden
glazing bars into octagonal panes, coloured glass in small squares
between. Beyond a 2 storey lean-to. To road high block has
central gable with wide chimney; to its left a slight set back,
with one first floor window only; beyond gabled extension projects
slightly: blocked door at ground floor. To right of chimney a 3-
light wooden mullion and transom oriel window. A lower block
behind porch set back slightly: lower two-thirds wall oldest part
of house: 2-light stone-mullioned window with hollow chamfer
moulding; blocked door below. Further right, beyond rendered
gable, a heavy ovolo-moulded door frame with boarded door.
Interior: dog-leg stair with panelled newels. Room to left has
C17 dust-ledge panelling, 5-panels high, scratch-mouldings to
panelled door, stone fireplace with depressed ogee-head. Main
room on right heavy longitudinal ovolo-moulded beam, supported by 2
plain cross beams, possibly inserted when original partition on
line of bay removed. Stone fireplace, hollow-chamfer moulding
with Tudor arch, deep lintel above with one row of diamond-shaped
pellets. Jacobean-style C19 panelling to fireplace wall, with row
of possible C16 carved panels inset. First floor, 2 reeded door
surrounds, first half C19, one embellished with 2 figures carrying
shields. Bolection-moulded fireplace in room with oriel window.
Said to have been used as pin factory in C18.

Listing NGR: SO6675913694

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26632383

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