Building record 1261/1 - Oak Farm House

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 59084 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Farmhouse: Late seventeenth century with eighteenth century addition (dated on date-stone P M 1725) and further nineteenth and twentieth century additions and alterations. Timber frame with whitewashed brick infill and English garden wall bond brick with slate roof. Two storeys. T-shaped plan, the down-stroke being the late seventeenth century portion while the cross stroke divides into the early eighteenth century piece to the left and the nineteenth and twentieth century section to the right. North-east gable end (late seventeenth century): three by two cells of small framing with angle braces and V and angle-struts to gable. Nineteenth century gabled porch to ground floor. South-east front: Stone and brick plinth. Eight by three cells of small framing with angle braces to right hand corner and either side of the second upright from the left. One single-light and one three-light twentieth century casement windows. One imposed mezzanine stair window of one light and one nineteenth century three-light dormer window. Adjoining to the left the north-eastern face of the wing of 1725 has two cambered headed windows, the right hand one now blocked, the left hand one with three eighteenth century casement lights. First floor has a three light eighteenth century casement window to left with the rectangular date-stone to the right. The whole wall is presently painted in simulation of timber framing. The north-west face of the 1? century wing has eight by two cells of small framing with nineteenth century fenestration. Interior: Stop-chamfered beams to parlour ceiling, small framing to internal walls. Angle braces to trusses and wind bracing.