Description

SS 60 NE
1/46
26.8.65

COLDRIDGE
WESTACOTT LANE
Westacott Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. Probably late C15 with major C16 and C17 improvements, modernised in
late C19, C20 extension. Plastered cob on rubble footings; stone rubble stacks
topped with C19 and C20 brick; thatch roof including a small slated section.
3-room-and-through-passage plan house facing south with inner room at right (east)
end. Service end room divided into 2 in C20. Projecting end stacks to service and
inner rooms and projecting front lateral stack to hall with hall window in a
projecting bay alongside. Projecting newel stair turret to rear of hall. C19 and
C20 outshots to rear including a flat-roofed 2-storey extension to rear of service
room. 2 storeys.
Irregular 2:1:1 - window front comprising a variety of late C19 and C20 casements
with glazing bars. Front doorway to passage left of centre contains late C19
panelled door with Gothic-style hinges with contemporary rubble porch with plain
elliptical-headed outer arch and gabled and slate roof. Immediately to right of
doorway is the large stack and hall bay with its own gabled roof. The roof close
to the hall stack and bay is slated. Roof is gable-ended to right and hipped to
left.
Interior shows work of several periods. The oldest exposed structure is the 2-bay
roof over the hall and passage between full height cob crosswalls. The truss here
is a jointed cruck fixed by 2 face pegs and a slip tenon. It is probably late C15
and although the roofspace is inaccessible it is expected to be smoke-blackened.
The hall fireplace was probably inserted to the late C16-early C17 but it appears
to have been much rebuilt since and the fireplace has not been discovered. In the
rear wall a late C16-early C17 oak doorframe to newel stair has chamfered surround
with step stops. The hall was floored sometime in C17 with unstopped soffit-
chamfered crossbeams. Inner room has late C16-early C17 soffit-chamfered and step
stopped crossbeam and a rubble fireplace with roughly-finished oak lintel of
probably late C17 or C18 date. In the passage the headbeam of an oak plank-and-
muntin screen shows but its form if it survives is hidden. The service room
appears to have been rebuilt in the late C17 or C18 with roughly-finished
crossbeams and similar oak lintel to rubble fireplace. Apart from the hall and
passage roof the rest is carried on A-frame trusses of C17 or C18 date. Only the
feet of the trusses can be examined.

Listing NGR: SS6854907364

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26456741

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)