Building record 280/1 - Bache House Farmhouse

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 56982 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Farmhouse with late seventeenth century origins but early nineteenth century appearance. Whitened brickwork and pebble dashing, slate roof, two storey and attic, four bays with three-bay return (north-west) which completes an "L" shaped plan. An added projecting brick porch, at the south end of the east front, has a semi-circular headed opening at the side with added mild steel gate. The door, in the main wall, is half glazed in a beaded door case. Mainly three-light flush casements, with wood sills and glazing bars; flat headed to facade and with segmental arches on return. Some windows blocked at first floor level. The side entrance is a twelve-panel door in a fluted pilaster doorcase with projecting cornice and flat head. Barge boards to gables; plain brick stacks.

Interior: The three-bay return is a former cheese room, which is now part of the house, this contains eighteenth century chamfered beams. There are timbers in the house walls, six-panel doors, also four-panel doors and wide boarded doors on HL hinges. Oak staircase with square balusters and boarded spandrel. Four-panel doors at first floor level. Gable timbers visible in attic, also chamfered oak purlins and strutted trusses, boarded doors on HL hinges. The roof over the former cheese room has a king post truss.

<2> Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME), 1993, Bache House Farmhouse Historic Building Report (Report). SCH382.

A timber framed two-and-a-half storey farmhouse with a double-pile plan. Box-framed with rectangular panels and straight braces. Originally had wattle and daub infill panels and a sandstone plinth. The front pile has four-and-a-half bays, an axial gabled roof and probably originally had two gables on the front elevation. The original plan is unclear, although the front entrance probably stood in roughly the same position as today and a timber-framed spine wall divided the front and rear piles. In the late-eighteenth or early-nineteenth century alterations were made. Full history and description of building.