Description

TA 00 NW CADNEY B 1434 (west side, off)

7/42 Howsham Barff Farmhouse 6.11.67 II

Farmhouse. c1800 for Yarborough Estate, with early C20 alterations and renovations of 1985-6. Yellow brick in Flemish bond, rendered to rear wing. Slate roof. Ashlar staircase to entrance. L-shaped on plan: 2-room central entrance-hall west front with single-room wing to rear right and outshut in angle. 3 storeys, 3 bays; symmetrical. Chamfered plinth with single course of black bricks above. Flight of 3 stone steps to entrance has balustrade with vase balusters and moulded string and rail, terminating in square panelled piers with corniced caps and carved fruit-bowl finials. Doric doorcase with attached columns carrying entablature with roundels in the frieze, modillioned cornice and pediment, C20 half-glazed panelled door and fanlight in round-arched reveal with pilastered surround, cornice and archivolt. C20 flat-roofed ground-floor bay windows to each side, that to left with central glazed door. First floor: central flat-roofed canted oriel window on brackets, with leaded lights beneath egg-and-dart cornice; 3-light casements to side bays in original openings with stucco keyed flat arches. Second floor: central Diocletian window beneath stucco keyed arch, flanked by low 3-light windows beneath stucco keyed arches. All windows C20 casements, some with leaded lights. Stepped and dentilled brick eaves cornice. Stone-coped gables with shaped kneelers. End stacks. Interior. Original details include: fine open-well staircase with ramped and wreathed mahogany handrail, plain balusters and column newel posts; fireplaces with ornamented cast-iron ducks-nest grates in stone surrounds: fluted wooden chimneypiece to ground floor right, pilastered chimneypiece to first floor left with carved brackets supporting fluted cornice mantelpiece; moulded plaster cornices to main ground and first-floor rooms; fielded-panel window shutters and doors in architraves; beaded-panelled reveal to original first- floor central Venetian window.

Listing NGR: TA0304305929

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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