Building record 1169/1 - Townhouse Farmhouse

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 56472 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Farmhouse. Early seventeenth century with mid-eighteenth century addition. Timber framed with rendered infill and red Flemish bond brick with a plain tile roof. T-shaped plan. Two and three storeys. The cross-stroke of the T which now forms the principal front is of later date and added to an earlier two-cell house of early seventeenth century date which itself appears to have been altered in the early eighteenth century. The road front is of five bays and three storeys symmetrically disposed. Central classical door surround to ground floor with fluted pilasters supporting dosserets and an open pediment containing a fanlight and door of six raised and fielded panels. To either side at ground floor level are window surrounds with stone sills and flat arched heads of gauged brick set with twentieth century windows of four by five panes. Five similar windows to the first and second floor level, save that the third and fifth windows to both floors have been blocked. Sun firemark is right of the central window. Gable stacks to either side, each of four flues. The right hand side has a ground floor door at left with flat-arched head and windows to the first and second floors above this. The early seventeenth century wing at left of this has twelve by three cells of small framing with angle braces to right and left and to the fourth and seventh uprights from left. Two nineteenth century three-light casement windows to ground and first floors and two nineteenth century windows with chamfered mullions and narrow lights, that at ground floor level of six lights, that at first floor level of three blocked lights. Central ridge chimney stack. To left of this is a further eighteenth century brick extension and the rear of this wing is all refaced in eighteenth century or nineteenth century brick.