page_title: The Lack, Brompton
section_title: Architectural description
hierarchical_section_title: The Lack, Brompton / Architectural description
caption_attribution_description: English: The Lack, Brompton/Churchstoke
context_page_description: The Lack is a Grade II* Listed Building, formerly in the historic parish of Churchstoke but now in the parish of Chirbury with Brompton in Shropshire. It is likely to have been built in the latter part of the 16th century.
context_section_description: A farmhouse dating from the later part of the 16th century with later additions and alterations. Timber framed with plaster and painted brick infill  and a slate roof. It has a lobby-entrance of "Severn Valley" type with the doorway leading into a lobby set against the centrally placed chimney stack.  The house consists of four framed bays, with one to the left of the entrance. It is two storied house of transitional  or ‘‘sub-medieval’’ form with a jettied first floor with a richly moulded bressumer supported on decorated carved brackets. 
  The timber-framing of the house is close-studded with vertical posts to the ground. The upper floor has herringbone/lozenge decoration to front; jetty also on second floor to right gable end; small square panels to rear on first floor with ground floor under-built in brick. Left bay in 19th-century brick now
  painted black and white in imitation of timber frame.
  The windows are late 19th century  casements; first-floor window of right gable end has a moulded wooden cill of an earlier window. Brick addition has segmental-headed casement. The interior has been 
  considerably altered in the early 20th century with new staircase and fireplaces but retains chamfered cross-beam ceiling with ogee stops to right ground-floor room.
caption: The Lack, Brompton/Churchstoke
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