Description

TWITCHEN
SS 72 NE
14/213 Whitcott Farmhouse
- II
Farmhouse. Early C18, probably remodelling of a mid-to late C17 house. Rendered,
probably over cob and stone rubble with some C19 red-brick dressing to rear. Gable-
ended scantle-slate roofs, with catslide over outshut at rear. Painted stone stacks
with chamfered offsets, weatherings and brick tops.
Plan and development: Two-room central-entrance plan, facing south. External end
stacks and central staircase rising from entrance lobby. Lower one-roomed service
end slightly set back to right, with integral end stack. Continuous outshut at rear.
Probably later lean-to addition at right-hand end and C19 two-storey outshut at rear
of service end. The house is probably a late C17 building remodelled in the early to
mid-C18, at which time the service end and rear outshut were probably added. Two
storeys with outshut of one storey and attic and one-storey lean-to addition.
Exterior: Plinth. Symmetrical 3-bay front; C19 three-light wooden casements.
Central late C18 or early C19 door with 4 beaded flush panels (top panels partly
glazed) with pegged beaded frame. C20 glazed concrete porch. Service end with
first-floor and ground-floor probably C20 three-light wooden casements. C20 half-
glazed door to right. Lean-to addition to right-hand gable end with boarded door to
front. Two gabled dormers to outshut at rear, with C20 wooden casements and slate-
hung sides. Outshut at rear of right-hand end with first floor 2-light wooden
casement and ground-floor doorway with wooden lintel.
Interior: Left-and right-hand ground-floor rooms with C17 chamfered cross beams.
Segmental-arched recess in rear wall of left-hand ground-floor room, probably
formerly a cupboard. Open fireplace in right-hand ground-floor room with old
plastered ceiling and open fireplace with dressed sandstone jambs, unchamfered wooden
lintel (adzed to take plaster), slate hearth and cooking irons. Two cupboards in
rear wall, each with pair of doors. C18 four-panelled door to rear of right-hand
room with wrought-iron strap hinges. Two early C18 doors leading from entrance lobby
to left-and right-hand ground-floor rooms, each with 6 raised and fielded panels, H-L
hinges and moulded architraves. Three early C18 doors to first floor, each with 2
raised and fielded panels. Borrowed light from first-floor front room to top of
staircase, through C18 square-leaded window with wrought-iron saddle bars. Ground-
floor service room to right, with slate floor, bench along left-hand wall and rough
cross beam. Double open fireplace to right (right-hand one probably former smoking
chamber) with dressed-stone jambs, bread oven in left-hand fireplace and C18 beaded
overmantel with bracketed mantelshelf. Old boarded door into room to left (sealed).
Arched recess in rear wall. Rear door with pegged frame, beaded to sides and
chamfered to tops.

Listing NGR: SS7714928807

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26510329

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