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© Mr Gordon Dixon
IoE Number:
236279
Location:
BROCKLEY HALL FARMHOUSE,
HESLEYHURST, ALNWICK, NORTHUMBERLAND
Photographer:
Mr Gordon Dixon
Date Photographed:
20 October 2002
Date listed:
29 May 1987
Date of last amendment:
29 May 1987
Grade
II
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HESLEYHURST BROCKLEY HALL
NZ 09 NE
8/39 Brockley Hall
Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse. Probably originally a bastle house. C16 (recorded in 1579);
restored and refronted 1666 by Thomas Wharton. Restored again 1858.
Random rubble, especially large to rear. Ashlar dressings and Welsh slate
roof. One room deep, three rooms long. Irregular openings. 2 storeys, 4
windows.
On ground floor 5 bays. Doorway in 4th bay has roll-moulded Tudor-arched
surround with fine hollow-chamfered outer order which is stepped above the
arch. Lintel, dated 1666 has central shield bearing an 'M' and surrounded
by foliage; flanking letters T W for Thomas Wharton; hoodmould with scrolled
stops. Above a square panel inscribed R . In the 2nd bay a C19 doorway
1858
with chamfered alternating-block surround. C19 2-light double-chamfered
mullioned windows. Gabled roof with flat coping and tall corniced end and
ridge stacks of 2 conjoined shafts.
Single-storey C19 addition on left has boarded and battened door and small
4-pane casment.
Interior: rear wall, right end wall and internal cross wall are c.40 inches
thick. This represents the C16 house. Another wall c.40 inches thick
continues left of this on ground floor and suggests a single-storey addition
to the original house. Old oak beams.