Description

TF 29 NE NORTH THORESBY THE SQUARE

4/46 The Farmhouse

The building shall be upgraded to grade II*, and the description shall be amended to read:

Farmhouse. 1683 date, with initials B.M., inscribed on the tie- beam; later additions and alterations. Originally mud-and-stud construction on brick plinth, the house was largely cased in red brick and the gables built up in the early/mid C19. Colour washed. Thatched roof (originally half-hipped) with small dormer to second bay. Large central brick chimney stack; smaller stack added to west return in C19. Low brick extension to east has pantile roof; brick extension to rear of west bay has flat felt roof. Lobby entry plan. Main house single storey with attics, 4 bays. Part glazed door with single 12-pane sash to right, 2 to left and one in east gable . Single small-paned casement in dormer, west gable and single-bay extension. INTERIOR: Present heck is of early brick construction, inserted to support cut-off south end of original chamfered bressumer whose north end was originally lapped over vertical bay post, behind angled brace. Early brick inglenook infilled with C20 stone fireplace but part of rear wall (broken through at north end) visible in present bathroom, lit by small Yorkshire sash (original fire window?). Bressumer supports mud firehood partly reworked in brick. Stop- chamfered beam rests on bressumer (west end supported on post built into original mud-and-stud cross wall) with oak posts carrying wide deal floorboards; close-lathed ceiling with earth infill above. Original parlour has small cast iron fireplace and retains visible mud-and-stud cross walling with horizontal rail, mid-post and rear doorway in north wall; chamfered beam has been shortened with east end resting on brick cross wall inserted when stair put in. Later mud-and-stud walling to either side at head of stair. Inscribed tie-beam to west of central chimney; tie-beam to east of chimney has clay underpinning (forming storage for drying grain?). East side of chimney added with fireplace to kitchen below.

Roof destroyed by fire in January 1991 when chimney reduced in height. Graded as earliest surviving dated mud-and-stud building which still retains many original, rare features. Recorded by R.C.H.M.E. in May 1991.

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TF 29 NE NORTH THORESBY THE SQUARE

4/46 The Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. C17 with late C18, C19 and C20 alterations. Originally timber frame cased in red brick, colour washed, thatched roof with decorative ridge, single axial and gable stacks. Lobby entry. 3 unit plan. Single storey with attics, 4 bay front, having off centre C20 half glazed door with to left 2 glazing bar sashes and to right a similar window. To the attic is a C20 casement dormer. To right is a single storey single bay C19 addition with pantile roof and single glazing bar casement. Interior reveals timber frame with arch brace and earth fast posts. A massive tie beam is inscribed PM 1768, perhaps indicating when the floor was inserted.

Listing NGR: TF2907298528

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (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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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  For the Record
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6