Description

SO 54 NE PRESTON WYNNE CP PRESTON WYNNE

5/69 Court Farmhouse - 20.10.52 GV II*

Farmhouse, now partly store and partly empty. C14 with C17 and later alterations and additions. Timber-framed and brick with rendered finishings, pantiles to hall range and slates to cross-wings. Large rubble external stack with diagonally set clustered brick shafts at east junction of hall and cross-wing; side stack to cross-wing in corresponding position to west. T-plan with C14 main hall range aligned roughly north/south and C17 cross-wing added to south end. Main range of four bays and cross-wing, remodelled C19, now of three windows. One storey and attic to main range; two storeys and attic to cross-wing. West elevation: two plus one windows, exposed unfenestrated timber-framing, three panels high to left, two entrances from high rubble plinth to centre of hall range and one 4-light late C19 casement to right with two gabled dormers above; gable end of cross-wing has attic light. South elevation: regular mid-C20 casements and central glazed door under gabled porch. Interior: C14 spere truss and spere posts, a cruck and cusped raking struts remain in south end of hall part. Much of the interior timber is white washed. (RCHM Vol II, p 155, plates 23 & 39).

Listing NGR: SO5574947005

External Links

• Wikidata Q17537449

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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings