Description

BRATTON FLEMING
SS 64 SE
2/60 Shorland Old Farmhouse with Byre
attached

II

Farmhouse, now holiday cottage with byre attached. Probably late C17 with C19
alterations, but earlier fabric may be concealed. Colour painted rendered rubble.
Slate roof with gable ends. Stack with offsets at right gable end with brick shaft
and axial brick stack. Through-passage plan with single room to each side, but
upper storey continues over one part of byre attached at upper left gable end of
house. A blocked doorway beside the axial stack and partly plastered internal walls
of part of byre suggests there was an inner room at upper end. 2-storeys. 4-
window range of C19 to C20 casements, three 2-light and one 3-light. Gabled half
dormer to window above byre. 2-light casement 2-panes per light and sash with
margin glazing bars to right of porch with gabled slate roof. Plank inner door.
Two 2-light casements to left of porch 2 and 3 panes per light. 4 doorways to byre
at upper end, 3 are blocked, that to right has plank door.
Interior: 2 bread ovens to room to left of cross-passage and 1 to chimney place in
the continuous outshut to rear. C19 dado panelling of vertical boarding to hall
with similar planking to full height to cross-passage end. 4 halved and pegged
trusses with trenched purlins and side-pegged collars below the axial stack and 2
trusses with rough steeply pitched principals above the byre.

Listing NGR: SS6707441321

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26457957

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (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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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)