Listing Text

CHASEWAYS
1.
5253
(North End)
Rowney Farm
TL 468 137:6/36
II GV
2.
Late C17/early C18. Large former farmhouse. Timberframed and plastered
with steep old red tile gabled roof. 2 storeys and attics: 5 windows:
external gable chimneys. Lower C18,2 storey timberframed and plastered
extension on N end with hipped old tile roof. Single storey rear kitchen
wing at NW weatherboarded with large gable chimney. Modern glazed front
porch and conservatory at S end. C19 cross windows with small paned cast
iron casements. Broad C18 door surround with architrave surmounted by
swelled frieze and triangular pediment, 2 light cast iron casements to N
extension. Rear has 2 dormers and modern lean-to extension. Interior has
high rooms with central well stair and heavy axial beams, chamfered with
bar stops. Upstanding beams in attic suggest S end was a cross wing. On
1st floor 2 panel doors with H- hinges. Part of Pishiobury estate sold in
1865 when some farm buildings were said to be newly erected. Rowneys said
to be mentioned as a messuage in deeds of 1735.

Listing NGR: TL4687713772