Description

SX 76 NE BROADHEMPSTON 1/40 Lake Farmhouse - - II Farmhouse. C17 or earlier with extensive C19 and C20 additions and alterations. Rendered rubble walls and 2 similar stacks one at left gable end and one lateral stack at the front, projecting on 1 side. Slate roof, gabled to left end and half- hipped to front of wing. Originally 3-room and through passage plan probably with screens passage; gable end stack heating lower room and front lateral fireplace to hall. Extended by wing at higher end which was originally barn, converted in C20. C19/C20 outshuts added at rear. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 5-window front with 4 windows to wing. C20 2-light casements, first floor right of centre is 3-light, all have small panes except for first floor far right. C20 single light casement to wing on first floor with French windows below. Gabled C20 glazed porch to left of centre with glazed door, similar leanto porch to right in angle with wing. At rear is small gabled wing to right of centre and C19/C20 outshuts to its left. Interior : contains a number of C17 features. The hall has 2 cross beams, chamfered with bar and hollow step stops; 1 of these goes into the wall above the fireplace where it is supported on a chamfered wooden corbel. The lateral fireplace has an ovolo moulded wooden lintel. The lower room has a good quality complete beamed ceiling with 3 chamfered cross beams which have hollow step stops and joists similarly decorated. The wooden fireplace lintel is also the same. According to the owner the partition between this room and the passage is a concealed plank and muntin screen, there is likely to be a similar one the other side of the passage. Roof space not inspected but thought to contain C20 roof timbers. Despite alterations this house contains some good quality C17 features.

Listing NGR: SX7915167926

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)