Description

SO 76 SE MARTLEY CP B 4204 (n.e. side)

3/119 The Noak

12.11.51

GV II

Farmhouse. Early C17 with 1853 addition. Brick with ashlar and plaster dressings, plain tile roof, multiple chimney stacks with diagonally set shafts. Plan: front range of one room depth, built 1853, with roughly square 2 room deep C17 building behind. Front elevation: 3 storeys with ashlar gable coping and quoins. Jacobethan style, 3 ranges of windows under gables with stepped coping, outer in projecting breaks; the windows have labels, mullions and Tudor arched casements, 2-1-2 on second floor, outer 3-light and central angled bay to first floor, parapeted 1:4:1 light angled bays to ground floor; tripartite verandah porch between outer breaks with panelled parapet and Tudor arched openings; Tudor arched entrance with stopped lable, double leaf panelled door. Bated on left return front: "IN 1853". Rear: 3 storeys with stone coped parapet and ashlar plinth, 3 bands which rise over the windows as square labels, reflected by similarly shaped projections to parapet; 3 windows with plaster dressings, 2:1:2 lights to second floor; 2 cross mullioned windows to first floor flanking a glazing bar sash with flush exposed sash box. Central entrance with segmental head approached by semi-circular plan stone steps much repaired in blue brick, cellar entrance to left with lintel of a single sand- stone block. Lead downpipes to left and right. This was the principal residence of the Nash family, of which the Worcestershire historian, Reverend Treadway Russell Nash, was a member. There are traces of a moat to the south. (VCH, 4, pp 290/291).

Listing NGR: SO7510860420

External Links

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