Description

HALBERTON
ST 01 SW
2/167 Nether Mill Farmhouse
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GV II

Farmhouse. Late C16, with later alterations and extensions. Cob and stone mix,
plastered, under gabled-end slate roof. Formerly a 3-room, through-passage plan,
the higher end to the right of the passage; the lower end, under a higher roof-
ridge, was rebuilt in the C19. Right hand end stack heats parlour; axial stack
backing on to passage heats hall, rear internal lateral stack heats lower end; all with brick shafts. 2-storeys.
Front: 4-window range, 2- and 3-light casement windows to first floor, 1 of the 3-light windows C19; C20 3-light windows to ground floor, with slate-roofed porch.
Lean-to at rear, 2- and 3-light casement windows to both floors.
Interior: hall with 2 cross beams, one with cyma recta moulding, the other with
composite cyma recta and ovolo moulding; bressumer to receive screen (now gone)
between hall and parlour; parlour with 3 chamfered axial beams with hollow step
stops.
Roof: 3 jointed crucks, that above passage closed, apex with yoke, side pegged;
collars morticed and side pegged; diagonal ridge peice. The crucks come well down into the wall and the hall/parlour screen bressumer is morticed into 1 of them. All clean.

Listing NGR: ST0124712109

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26462153

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Recommended Books

• 
  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (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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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]