Description

MADRON
SW 43 SW
6/72 Carfury Farmhouse and front garden
- walls
GV II
Farmhouse and front garden walls. Circa late C18. Granite ashlar throughout. Steep
slurried scantle slate roof with coped gable ends and granite ashlar chimneys over
the gables.
Plan: double depth plan. 2 rooms at the front: wider kitchen, left, and parlour,
right with cross passage between; 2 rear service rooms (partitions between right hand
rooms now removed).
C19 single storey lean-to at right with corbel above which originally carried an
external stair to the attic.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 3 window front (facing roughly east) with
doorway and fenestration grouped towards the right. C20 door. Circa late C19 or C20
6-pane horned sashes.
Similar windows at rear.
Interior: Original dog-leg stair and probably original floors and roof-structure but
doors are C20.
Square garden at the front enclosed by rubble walls with dressed granite cambered or
shaped copings. Gateway in left hand wall near the front corner. The wall ramps up
towards the house. Hooped wrought iron gate.
This house is notable for having granite ashlar for all its walls and is attractive
from every view point.

Listing NGR: SW4454934232

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26408868

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide