Description

RAYLEIGH HIGHLANDS ROAD
TQ 79 SE
RAWRETH
2/64
Pickerells Farmhouse
4.3.83
GV II

House. Early C17. Mainly timber framed and plastered with some plastered
brick. Red plain tiled roof. Central red brick chimney stack with attached
diagonal shafts. 2 storeys and attics. 3 first floor and right and left ground
floor windows of various 3 light vertically sliding sashes and casements, fixed
central first floor light. Central vertically boarded door with top light.
Moulded pilasters. Gabled red tiled porch. Internal features include back to
back first and ground floor fireplaces, those to first floor with moulded brick
Tudor arches and semi-circular backs, ground floor right has a moulded stone
fireplace with Tudor arch, that to left room now blocked, but said to be
similar. Original plain windows and moulded mullion windows. Rail and muntin
doors. Stop chamfered bridging joists. Heavy wall studs. Original stairs.
Built in settle with incised patera and foliate motifs, these motifs are
repeated on first floor doorway. 2 C18 corner cupboards. Framed side purlin
roof. Halved and bladed top plate scarf. Sometimes known as Pickerel's.

Listing NGR: TQ7981394670

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26440861

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Recommended Books

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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock