Building record 1150900000 - BRUDENELL HOUSE, CHURCH STREET

Grade II+. House. C16, refronted mid C18 with later C18 extensions. Red and vitreous brick with red quoins and window surrounds, moulded plinth and moulded wooden eaves cornice. Hipped old tile roof, irregular brick chimneys. Original wings to S. and E., late C18-C19 wing to N. forming V plan with later infill. 2 storeys, attic and cellar. E. front is of 5 bays, the outer bays slightly advanced with canted projections. Barred sash windows with gauged brick heads. Windows in left bay have original thick glazing bars. Centre bay has eaves-line dormer in form of a barred thermal window in shaped brick surround with moulded open pediment. Central barred and glazed door below rectangular fanlight with early C20 patterned glazing bars. S front has 5 narrow bays of similar sashes, the centre bay blind, the second bay having a C20 door with rectangular fanlight. Blocked cellar opening with segmental head. N. wing is of chequer brick with modillion eaves and leaded casements. Interior: ground floor rooms in S. wing have C18 bolection panelling, the W. room with a C18 moulded stone fireplace, the E. room with a C19 marble fireplace. Early C17 staircase. Hall to centre of E. wing has early C17 panelling, and C16 screen of linenfold panels with heraldic frieze incorporating name of George Brudenell, and pierced by 2 doorways with 4-centred arches. Hall also has moulded cross beams and altered stone fireplace with carved spandrels and tympanum, and early C17 overmantel with raised wooden panels and split balusters. RCHM II p. 245-6 Mon.9 (B1).


The Rectory, about 80 yards NW of the church, is of two storeys and an attic; the walls are of brick, with the remains of timber-framing; the roofs are tiled. It was built in the 16th century on an L-shaped plan, with wings extending towards the N and W, and a staircase on the N side of the W wing; the walls have been almost entirely re-faced, and considerable additions made, including a wing which extends from the W side of the N wing; on the W side of the courtyard thus formed is a wash-house apparently of the 17th century; in the middle of the N wing is the original hall, now the drawing room, with the study, formerly the kitchen, at the N end and the dining room at the S end; W of the dining room is the present entrance hall, with the doorway on the S side; W of the drawing room and the study are the staircase hall, some domestic offices, and the servant's hall. The house is an interesting example of 16th-century domestic architecture, with 17th and 18th-century alterations. The hall screen, of c1500, possibly brought from elsewhere, is especially noteworthy (B2).

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