Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3009SW VALE AVENUE, Patcham
577-1/15/1030 (South side)
13/10/52 No.133
Patcham Court Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. Early C17, altered and enlarged, notably by the
extension of the southern range westwards in 1971, to the
designs of the owner, John B Denman. Flint with brick
dressings, tile-hanging, roof of tiles.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. The earlier part of the building is
L-shaped, the longer, entrance wing running east-west, with a
shorter, north-south wing at its western end. Brick quoins and
brick dressings. Flat-arched entrance in north front, whose
architrave is detailed like an elaborate bolection-moulding;
panelled door with glazed upper panel; 2 flat-arched windows
with casements to this front on ground and first floors; the
cross-wing has only an oculus on its east front, and the
gabled north front is blank apart from brick quoins and
brickwork detail of central stack. On its west front this wing
has 2 sash windows on both floors. The extension, facing
north, has a flat-arched entrance to ground floor with moulded
architrave, broken pediment and panelled door with glazed
upper panel; brick banding to the flint at ground floor level;
2 sash-windows to the first floor and then a tile-hung
half-hipped wing with 3 sash-windows facing north and a
half-hipped dormer facing west; small, half-hipped garage west
of that. East front is tile-hung and half-hipped with 2-span
hipped-roofed garage. On the south front, there is a catslide
roof to the east end over a flat-arched window, with one
half-hipped dormer; and the rest of the range is of flint with
brick dressings to the ground floor, with sash windows, with a
jettied tile-hung first floor having casement windows; 2
stacks in the slope of the roof, one end stack.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ3019409158

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661201

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