Listing Text

HAUXLEY HIGH HAUXLEY
NU 20 SE
8/141 Hauxley Farmhouse,
wall and attached
outbuildings
GV II

Farmhouse, with yard wall and outbuildings, 1914. Snecked and tooled rubble;
tooled-and-margined quoins and dressings; outbuildings yellow Ashington brick.
Welsh slate roofs.

2 storeys, 3 + 1 bays. Moulded lst-floor string. Left part has central
part-glazed door with 2-light window over; other windows 3-light. Ground
floor windows 10-pane sashes, 1st floor 8-pane sashes; all have flat-faced
mullions and slightly-projecting sills. Coped gables on moulded kneelers;
stepped-and-corniced left end and ridge stacks. Returns show string, similar
windows, and slits in gables. Rear elevation shows projecting gabled single-
storey wing at each end, with pent-roofed verandah on 2 concrete posts between;
cross window above. Rectangular rear yard enclosed by tall flat-coped wall
with pent outbuildings against inner face.

Interior: Dining room has original fireplace. Straight 2-flight closed-
string stair against rear wall, with stick balusters and moulded handrail.

Note: said to have been built as a model farmhouse, at a cost of £500.

Listing NGR: NU2778403083