Description

UGBOROUGH MIDDLE FILHAM
SX 65 NW

8/118 Middle Filham
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- II

House, formerly a farmhouse. Circa late C16. Stone rubble. Slate roof with gabled
ends. 3-room and cross-passage plan with kitchen or parlour wing at rear forming
T-shaped plan. Axial stone stack backing onto former cross passage. Gable end
stacks and lateral stack at rear of lower end. Large gable end stack to rear wing.
2 storeys. Long 5-window range. C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars, ground
flor windows have C19 flat red brick arches. Early C19 panelled door to former
cross passage, to right of centre, with slate hood. Later plank door to left hand
higher end, also with slate hood. Interior: Hall has one chamfered main axial beam
and 2 half beams at upper and lower end of hall with bar steps with sunken spandrel-
like recessed either side of step. The chamfered joists have similar steps. Hall
fireplace has granite jambs and chamfered timber lintel with straight cut steps.
Early to mid C19 stairs inserted into wide cross passage. Roof over hall and higher
end has 4 trusses with straight principals with halved and lap-jointed apices,
3 tiers of mortices for threaded purlins, purlins missing, and later bolted or
nailed collars. 4 trusses over lower end are crossed and lap-jointed at apices,
collars are lap-jointed and side pegged and purlins are trenched.

Listing NGR: SX6487055772

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26401150

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Recommended Books

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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (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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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]