Description

BRENTOR
LIDDATON
The Homestead

II

House. Late C18/early C19; altered later C19. Painted stone rubble, rendered at sides and at rear and with slate-hung first floor at front. Asbestos tile roof with gabled ends and later red crested ridge tiles. Rendered gable-end stacks with louvered yellow clay pots.
PLAN: 2-room and central cross-passage plan with unheated service rooms and stairs in integral outshut to rear.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay south front with slate-hung first floor, C19 2-light casements with glazing bars and central doorway with original 2-panel door and insubstantial C20 open porch. At rear the roof is carried down to lower eaves of outshut.
INTERIOR: Little altered since the C19. Ground floor rooms have slate floors. The kitchen and parlour have fireplaces with Victorian chimneypieces, the kitchen the kitchen with an iron range. The parlour has two china cupboards with shaped shelves and paneled doors. The dairy at the back has slate shelves. C18 fielded 2-panel doors. The east chamber has a fireplace with simple late Georgian chimneypiece and a Victorian grate. Original lapped and pegged collar trusses; common rafters and some of the purlins replaced.
An unspoilt small late Georgian vernacular house.

Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock