Description

SO 9607-9707 DUNTISBOURNE ABBOTS DUNTISBOURNE LEER

9/66 Duntisbourne Leer Farmhouse (previously listed as Leer 4.6.52 Farmhouse)

GV II

House with one attached barn, now incorporated into house. C17 with C18 addition. Random rubble limestone; ashlar dressings; stone-slate roof; ashlar chimneys with moulded caps. 2 storey with attic; formerly 2-room plan but extended to 3 in C18; barn at right angles to form L-plan. South front of 3 windows: 2- light recessed chamfered mullioned windows except 3-light to ground floor at west end with wooden plaque engraved 'Dairy' mounted on surround (this was to gain exemption from window tax); all mullioned windows have hoodmoulds; timber sundial mounted on wall between windows of ground and upper floors; off-centre doorway with timber lintel and plank door; window to each floor at right is leaded timber casement with timber lintel; 3 gabled roof dormers with timber casements. Blank east end gable with chimney at ridge. Left-hand end of north elevation has single leaded timber casement to each floor with timber lintel; otherwise fenestration is scattered with one 2-light with hoodmould to around floor and one timber casement with timber lintel; 3 gabled roof dormers with timber casements. C20 mullioned windows of 2 and 3-lights to upper floor of barn inserted below 2 rows of pigeon holes wth stone ledges; 8 rows of holes in north gable end which has at low level a small niche, now blocked; said to have been used for dole food. Some C20 windows inserted on west side of barn and at end of house. Chimney at west end incorporates part of fleur-de-lys panel. In ground floor room a niche with decorated stone jambs and a partly mutilated head with fleur-de-lys decoration and part of date ___17.

Listing NGR: SO9752607568

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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)