Building record 1292600000 - BRANDS HOUSE

Grade II. Offices. Mid-late C18 W. wing, with c.1820-30 grand S. front and later C19 extensions to rear. C18 part is rendered with plinth, wooden dentil eaves cornice and old tile roof. 2 storeys and attic, 3 bays. 4-pane boxed sashes. Centre bay has attic lunette in small gable, and double doors, half-glazed and shuttered. Later wooden porch with moulded cornice hood on slender Tuscan columns. Early C19 S. front is rendered and colourwashed with hipped slate roof and rendered chimneys. 2 storeys, 5 bays. Plinth, moulded cornice and parapet. 3 centre bays are very slightly advanced under a single pediment. 3-pane sash windows with narrow architrave surrounds, louvred shutters and moulded stone sills on brackets. Steps up to central glazed double doors with large rectangular fanlight. Pedimented porch with 2 Ionic columns and Doric antae. Gable end of C18 wing set back to left; C20 loggia with Tuscan portico to right. Rear extensions also rendered and colourwashed, of 2 and 3 storeys, with irregular sash windows and rendered panels between. Interior: older wing has central staircase with turned balusters and moulded handrail; fine early C19 staircase with twisted balusters and curving handrail, the staircase hall with 2-bay arcade; plaster panelling, one C18 room with a little wood panelling (B1).