Brizlincote Hall Farmhouse
BRIZLINCOTE HALL FARMHOUSE, BRIZLINCOTE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1096480
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Brizlincote Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BRIZLINCOTE HALL FARMHOUSE, BRIZLINCOTE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1096480
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Brizlincote Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIZLINCOTE HALL FARMHOUSE, BRIZLINCOTE LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BRIZLINCOTE HALL FARMHOUSE, BRIZLINCOTE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- South Derbyshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bretby
- National Grid Reference:
- SK2732522080
Details
SK 22 SE
2/3
19-1-67
PARISH OF BRETBY
BRIZLINCOTE LANE
(West Side)
Brizlincote Hall Farmhouse (formerly listed as Brizlincote Hall [House only])
GV
II*
House. Built in 1707 for the Second Earl of Chesterfield. Red
brick and sandstone ashlar, hipped plain tile roof with two
massive red brick and ashlar stacks. Chamfered stone plinth,
projecting stone quoins, moulded first floor band and moulded
dentilled second floor band. Segmental pediments across the
full width of each facade. Rectangular plan. Two storeys and
attics. North elevation of five symmetrical bays. Semi-
basement with four windows. Flight of five semi-circular steps
to central doorway with moulded architrave and swan-neck
pediment on moulded consoles repeated at right angles against
the wall. Half glazed door. Inscribed above NON IGNARA MALI
MISERIS SUCCURRERE DISCO AD 1714. (Not ignorant of ill, I learn
to help the unhappy). To the left, two glazing bar sashes in
moulded architraves. Two similar architraves to the right, one
with a blind window, the second with a cross window casement.
The first floor has five windows in moulded architraves with
alternating segmental and triangular pediments. Cross window
casements in all but the left window which is blind. Within the
pediment a central blind window with triangular pediment,
flanked by glazing bar sashes in moulded architraves with swan
neck pediments, flanked in turn by blind circular windows.
Similar five bay south elevation with mostly C19 casement
lights. Above the doorway the inscription HOMO LUPUS AD 1714.
(Man is a Wolf to Man). Two bay east elevation with C19 single
bar sashes in C18 moulded architraves. Two similar above, in
pedimented architraves and two circular windows in the pediment,
one of them blind. Lower C19 and C20 wing to west not of
special interest. Interior: Brick vaulted basement service
rooms. Large four-centred arched fireplace in what was probably
the kitchen. Circular splays to the windows. Low ground floor
rooms, mostly altered. The hall has a huge four-centred arched
fireplace bay. One room has an Adam style chimneypiece. From
the hall a door opens to a plain dogleg staircase. The attic
staircase has a balustrade with balusters that look C20. The
first floor is treated as a piano nobile and all the rooms have
bolection moulded panelling, with doors to match. The cornice
remains in one room, double, with egg and dart. The attic
contains four boxed-in lead cisterns which drain off the water
from the roof.
Listing NGR: SK2732522080
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 82807
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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