Description

NORTHLEW
SS 50 SW
6/224
- South Yeo
- II
Farmhouse. Circa early C17 possibly with earlier origins, C19 addition. Plastered
stone rubble walls. Gable ended slate roof. Brick stack at either end and granite
ashlar axial stack with moulded dripcourse and tapering cap.
Plan: 3-room and through passage plan witn lower end to the right. Hall stack
backs onto the passage. Unheated rear wing behind hall probably a later C17 or
early C18 addition. In the C19 an addition was made at the left-hand end of the
house probably as a dairy or for some subsidiary purpose.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front. The 2 left-hand windows on the
first floor are early C19 hornless 20-pane sashes. The right-hand windows on both
floors are later C20 12-pane sashes. Later C20 2-light small-paned casements to
left on ground floor. C19 studded plank door to passage at right of centre under
corrugated iron doorhood supported on C19 carved wooden brackets. The lower
addition at the left-hand end has a shuttered unglazed window on the first floor
with a C20 2-light casement below and C19 plank door to its right. Rear wing
projects from centre ofhouse with C19 outshut to its right.
Interior inaccessible at time of survey but likely to contain features of interest
and possibly an early roof structure.

Listing NGR: SS5133700435

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26440436

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