Description

WEST ANSTEY WEST ANSTEY
SS 82 NE
2/51 Church Town Farmhouse
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GV II
Farmhouse. Probably C17 core, extensively remodelled in C19. Painted rendered
stone rubble and cob. Slate roof with axial and gable end stone rubble stacks with
tapered caps, that to left end with clay pot with horns. Lateral rear stack to
added range at right end.
Plan: 3-room and cross-passage plan, lower end to right, the partition on the lower
side of the cross-passage having been removed. Continuous outshuts to rear
containing staircase. Probably C18 kitchen/servants quarters range with lower ridge
level added at right end with large kitchen and dairy.
Exterior: 2 storeys. 4-window range C19 fenestration. All 3-light casements, 6
panes per light, except for 2-light casement above 4-panelled door, the upper 2
panels glazed.
Interior: C19 joinery survives largely throughout. C19 chimneypiece to lower end
fireplace with bread oven. Hollow chamfered cross ceiling beam to former cross-
passage, 2 chamfered axial ceiling beams and rear bressumer to hall and deep
chamfered axial ceiling beam and bressumers to inner room. Hall and inner room
fireplaces concealed by C20 chimneypieces.
Roof structure entirely replaced in C19.

Listing NGR: SS8521127526

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26611006

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Recommended Books

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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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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)