Description

SO 70 SW HAMFALLOW BREADSTONE

2/225 Breadstone House

II

Detached house. Early/Mid C19 front across small late C18 core, with late C19 additions forming 2 rear ranges. Ashlar front, some render to left hand return, remainder in coursed rock-faced masonry. Concrete tile roof, twin polygonal ashlar flues to stone stacks at rear of each of front gables, remaining ridge stacks brick with moulded stone cappings and 2 large stepped stone lateral stacks. Front in Gothick style with 2 steeply pitched gables both with elaborate decorative barge boards and fascias. 2 storeys and attic. 3 bays, canted 4-light oriels to each side on 1st floor in moulded stone frames and with hipped stone roof, below projecting 2-light square bays also in moulded stone frames. Gable windows and central first floor windows are 2-light stone mullions with square hoodmould. All lights with interlaced Gothick tracery. Central projecting porch with castellated corner turrets, embattled front parapet, wide pointed front archway, 2 narrow side arches, 2 niches flanking door with thin colonnettes and multi-cusped open tracery heads. Door in Gothick panelling with quatrefoils inset in central rail. Fanlight with graduated pointed-arch tracery.

Listing NGR: SO7082000845

External Links

• Wikidata Q26530888

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