Description

CLAUGHTON SD 54 SW 8/63 Matshead Farmhouse 17-4-1967 - II House, 1703, with exterior extensively altered c.1980. Rendered brick with slate roof. Stone window dressings and drip courses now replaced by cast concrete replicas. L-plan. 2 storeys with attic, 3 bays, with 2 drip courses. Ground and 1st floors have cross windows. Attic has 2-light mullioned windows. Door, in central bay under slated Canopy, has moulded stone surround with shaped lintel inscribed: 'RM 1703'. Chimney on rear wall of front range, between 1st and 2nd bays. Drip courses continue on left-hand return wall. Gable of front range of 2 bays with windows similar to those at the front. The left-hand bay is blank on the ground floor, The rear wing has one bay, with a 6-light mullioned and transomed ground-floor window and a cross window above. Interior has exposed ovolo-moulded main ceiling joists and a similar firehood bressumer in the left-hand front room.

Listing NGR: SD5181440922

External Links

• Wikidata Q26457007

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings