Description

BUGBROOKE CHURCH LANE SP6757 (South side) 12/12 New Creation Hall 03/05/68 (Formerly listed as The Hall)

II

House, formerly rectory. Completed 1815 for Reverend H.B. Harrison. Yellow brick in Flemish bond, hipped slate roof, brick internal stacks. Double-depth plan. 2-storey, 3-window range. Entrance front has central part-glazed double-leaf doors with moulded stone surround and overlight approached by 3 stone steps in porch with fluted Greek Doric columns to front and unfluted pilasters flanking door. 12-pane sash windows to ground and first floors all with gauged brick lintels. Chamfered stone plinth, stone storey band and deep bracketed eaves. 4-window right side elevation. Garden front to rear has round-headed central door with double-leaf, part-glazed doors, side-lights and fanlight, approached by 9 stone steps. Lower 2-storey service wing to left side with red brick to entrance front wall, windows with segmental-arched heads and dentilled brick cornice. Interior: vestibule has chequered stone paving. Similar paving to staircase hall with black diamond insets. Stone cantilever open-well staircase, iron stick balusters and ramped and wreathed mahogany handrail; top-lit with domed skylight. Reeded doorcases and surrounds to windows which all have shutters to reveals. Stone fireplace in garden hall. Garden door has panelled reveals and shutters and fanlight with coloured and painted glass with family coat of arms and motto. Marble chimneypieces to principal rooms, mostly original. Brick-vaulted cellars. Built at the expense of the Harrison family who were the principal landowners in the parish as well as patrons of the living.

Listing NGR: SP6723357288

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)