Description

1. WATCHFIELD HIGHWORTH ROAD
Westmill Farmhouse
SU 29 SW 1/79

II
2.
C17 core with a circa 1820 addition of rubble stone cement rendered and incised to
resemble stonework with a gabled slate roof and one end and one ridge stack. L shaped
plan with C17 section on a N/S axis and the 1820 addition to the W. N front of
2 storeys and 5 bays. The C17 section has 2 clapboarded gabled dormers and 3 light
sashes. The Cl9 addition has 6 x3pane sashes to the upper windows and 6 pane sashes
to the ground floor. Centrally placed 6 panel door sheltered by a cement rendered and
gabled slate roofed porch.
Inside, the drawing room in the C17 section has 2 stopped and chamfered beams, an
enormous chamfered stone jamb to an inglenook fireplace and 2 light mullioned windows
with cavetto mouldings on the original rear wall now made internal by later outshuts.
The circa 1820 addition has an elegant cantilevered staircase of the period with
carved tread-ends.

Listing NGR: SU2318190837

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26300820

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments