Building record 130/0/74 - No.6 High Street (Brackley Lodge), including gate piers

The East front consists of two buildings. The South range is three storeyed, early C18 ashlar with a moulded and modillioned cornice at the 2nd floor.

{1} The East front consists of 2 buildings. The South range is 3 storeyed, early C18 ashlar with a moulded and modillioned cornice at the 2nd floor. Balustraded parapet which is continuous with the north range. In the 1st floor are 5 sash windows in moulded stone keystoned frames with scroll bracketed cills. Above the cornice in the 2nd floor are 3 sash windows in similar frames. The North range is new or rebuilt. 2-storeyed ironstone ashlar with a projecting porch and a low 2-storeyed wing on the north again. The porch has Doric style side angle caps and a broken pediment to the doorway; the gable of the porch is curved and has a moulded scrolled panel in it. The sash windows have moulded stone frames with segmental pediments and pulvinated friezes. The ironstone front gate piers to this range have ball finials. Interior - The fittings of the south range are mostly modern but the 1st floor rooms in front are said to have some C18 white-painted panelling. The sash windows here are C18-19. At the back, exterior, on the south-west is a modern 2-storeyed connected block with 4 sash windows and a Welsh slate hipped roof.


{3} Winchester House School was founded in 1870's in St Leonards-on-sea and moved to Brackley in 1918. It was located at Brackley Lodge initially and then later moved to Manor House in 1922. Brackley Lodge is a large high status mansion fronting on to High Street with associated outbuildings to the rear. In a disused and derelict state, but due to be re-developed into houses and flats.

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 2/11 (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), H17 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN45262.

<3> Ballinger J.; Foard G., 1999, Northamptonshire Extensive Urban Survey: Brackley, (unchecked) (Digital archive). SNN100499.

<4> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, DOE(HHR)Dist.of S. Northants, Northants June 1977 9 (Report). SNN112993.

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