Description

BROUGETON CHURCH STREET
SP 87 NW
(south east side)
5/10
The Gables
25.10.51
II
Farmhouse, now a house. Built 1620 by Ellis Else,incorporating a late C16
open hall house. Altered 1648 and 1685. Remodelled and rear wing added
c1848. Ironstone with limestone dressings, plain tile and Welsh slate
roofs. Coped gables with kneelers, single grouped ridge, single gable and
single side wall coped stone stacks. 2 storeys plus garrets, 4 bays, E-
plan. The front has moulded stone mullioned casements with hood moulds.
North side has, to right, a symmetrical front with a central crenellated
mid C19 porch with Tudor arched doorway, flanked by single 3-light
casements. Beyond, on either side, a slightly projecting gabled wing each
with a 3-light casement. Above are 2 cross-eaves, 3-light gabled
dormers, flanked by single 3-light casements in the wings. Above again,
each wing has a 2-light garret casement. Above the left one is a
datestone inscribed 'W E 1685'. To the left, beyond a coped boundary
wall, a 2-storey service wing with a full-width lean-to porch with a 3-
light casement and a panelled door. Above, a 3-light casement. Adjoining
single-storey C19 washhouse and coal store has a ridge stack and an off-
centre door flanked by single casements. Rear has to right a C19 2-
storey wing with a canted bay window and above it a tripartite sash. In
the gable a reset datestone inscribed '1620 EE' To the left, a half-
glazed door with flanking lights and to its left a tripartite sash.
Above, 2 cross-eaves dormers with stepped-head tripartite sashes, all
C19. To the right, a door and casement and beyond, 2 C19 Yorkshire
sashes with wooden lintels. Above, to left, a C19 margin light casement
and above it, a blocked garret casement. Interior has a central stairwell
with an early C19 oak staircase leading to a balustraded gallery with
coved ceiling and Gothic plasterwork. The centre of the house has a
noteworthy early C16 smoke-blackened roof structure with cambered tie
beams and cambered collars to all rafters. The remainder has a late C17
principal rafter roof with single purlins.

Listing NGR: SP8365075746

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26577464

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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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