Description

BRAMPFORD SPEKE LAKE BRIDGE SX 99 NW 3/5 Brooke Cottage - - II Cottage, formerly a farmhouse. Circa early-C17. Rendered cob on stone plinth with half-hipped thatch roof, and left-hand internal end-stack. 2 storeys; originally a 3-room, cross passage plan, with the kitchen on the left-hand side, higher rooms to the right. The inner room (now the kitchen) has been much altered, and its front obscured by the addition of a C20 thatched south wing. The original entrance now blocked, but its position marked by a C20 window and flanked by Thorverton stone buttresses. The present entrance lies to the right under a thatched porch. Former kitchen and hall together have 4 windows above (3 with leaded panes) and 3 below, to the front. Left-hand end fireplace with small oven, stone jamb, and chamfered wooden lintel with run-out stops. Former hall with similar fireplace, no oven, and with step stops. Beams throughout, chamfered with step stops. (First floor and roof not inspected).

Listing NGR: SX9265097882

External Links

• Wikidata Q26457471

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014