Description

GAY HILL LANE 1. 5104 Walkers Heath B39 Walkers Heath Farmhouse (formerly listed under Kings Norton) SP 07 NE 17/8 31.3.76 II GV 2. Walkers Heath Farmhouse, Barn and outbuildings form a group. An early site probably relating to the home of William de Walker, named in a mid C13 rental for the manor of King's Norton. The farm house consists of two 2 window sections, that to the north latter, of 2 storeys, the south end of one and a half storeys. Retiled gable end roofs but with uneven ridge line indicating old roof construction. The walls are nearly all roughcast. The 2 storey west end is probably late C17 or early C18 built of brick and wood casements to both floors, band between. Gabled bracket hood to doorway. Large central brick chimney stack on ridge. The lower southern part with roughcast brick buttresses to the eaves may well incorporate timber framing of C16/C17.

Listing NGR: SP0564078087

External Links

• Wikidata Q26339180

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)