Description

EAST ILSLEY CHURCH HILL
SU 48 SE
(West side)
3/33 Church Farm House
(formerly included as
The Gables)
25.10.51
II
House. Early C15 with C16, C17, C19 and C20 additions and alterations.
Brick, grey with red dressings and some patterning to south, render
to north, English bond red brick to east with some signs of timber
framing; timber frame exposed in west gable of main house and in west
extension; some stone and flint in altered outbuilding to west. Main
house runs east west with four gabled wings at right angles to south,
that to east being re-modelled C17 wing; lower part timber framed
addition to west, now of one bay but formerly longer, linked to outbuildings
remodelled to form living space in C20. 2 storeys, end stack to east, 2 side
stacks to north and end stack to west of lower, C17 extension. North
Elevation:- one glazing bar sash to each of four gables with stone
cills and rubbed brick flat arches, tripartite sash on ground floor in
bay to right of centre, 3-light casement on ground floor to far right;
entrance of 3-panel double doors under C20 flat canopy on cut brackets
in bay to left of centre, lower converted outbuilding to left. South
Elevation:- canted bay to left with glazing bar sashes and roof pitch
raised above it; two chimneys break forward each with flanking C20
glazing bar sashes, those on first floor breaking eaves; C17 extension
breaks forward to right with 2-light casements and catslide roof over
outshut. Interior:- some C18 panelled doors still in place; early
C17 dogleg stair in C17 cross gabled wing with square moulded newels
and turned balusters; roof of 5 bays with double-butt purlins and
trusses with redundant crown posts, central truss of scissor construction
with cavetto moulding, chamfered and stopped purlins to either side of this
all with curved wind braces; rafters replaced at later period.

Listing NGR: SU4930480970

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26429456

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)