Description

SK 23 SE
4/2

PARISH OF BEARWARDCOTE
SUTTON LANE
(South Side)
Smerrills Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. Late C17, altered in late C19. Red brick with stone
and brick dressings. Double range slate roof with brick coped
gables and two large brick gable stacks, just inside the
copings. Plinth and first and second floor plain bands, as well
as plain bands at eaves level on gable walls and over the garret
windows. Square in plan, two bays and three storeys plus
garrets. South elevation has C20 lean-to porch over off-centre
doorcase with chamfered stone lintel. To either. side C19,
3-light casement windows, also under chamfered stone lintels and
to east another doorcase with panelled door and similar lintel.
Above two C19 3-light casements under chamfered lintels. Above
again similar, shallower windows. Similar windows to rear
elevation plus central stair windows at half landing level.
Gable walls have small garret windows in each gable. Interior
has inglenook fireplaces to two southern ground floor rooms, and
original, oak panelled doors in thick, staff moulded, oak frames
to ground and first floor rooms. Fine dogleg, turned baluster
staircase through four floors with moulded handrail, moulded
finials to stiles and wide oak treads. Attics and second floor
rooms have original oak plank doors. The staircase well and the
first and second floor rooms are unusual in never having been
plastered. Ground floor ceiling beams are ovolo moulded with
bar stops, elsewhere beams are chamfered with ogee stops.

Listing NGR: SK2839634784

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26388872

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)