Description

ST85SW BECKINGTON CP
RUDGE LANE

5/51 Seymours Court Farmhouse

11.3.68

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Farmhouse. C15, C16 and C17 alterations and additions. Rubble, stone tile roof, coped verges, rubble stacks, that to
right projecting. Cross passage plan. Two storeys, 2:2 bays, 4-light ogee-moulded stone king-mullioned windows, those
to ground floor with relieving arches, casements with leaded lights; left 2 windows under stopped labels, right 2
windows under a string course. Central C15 2-storey cross-gabled porch, 2 stage diagonal buttresses; 2-light moulded
stone nullioned window to first floor, each light with a cusped head, dripmould over with diamond terminals, casements
with leaded lights; broad door opening in a moulded 4 centred stone surround, dripmould; inner door opening in a
moulded 4-centred stone surround, ribbled door. Stair turret to right of rear, 3 further 2-light mullioned windows,
each light with a cusped head; door opening in a 4-centred stone surround, further blocked door opening. Interior:-
fine fireplace to right ground floor room in a 4-centred stone surround, flanked by plain pilasters with scroll
capitals, moulded cornice mantle overall; decorative early C17 plaster ceiling; hall with blocked lateral stone
fireplace; arch-braced roof of C15. Once the home of Thomas Lord Seymour of Sudely, who married Queen Catherine Parr
executed in 1549. (Country Life, 4 April 1908; VAG Report, Unpublished SRO, August 1980)

Listing NGR: ST8116752707

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Seymours Court Farmhouse, Beckington at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7459248

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings