Description

BEAFORD
SS 51 NW
7/21 Scriggins, with adjoining
- outbuildings to front and garden
walls to rear

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Probably early to mid C18, with minor late C19 alterations.
Rendered cob with coursed stone rubble outshut. Gable-ended thatched roof, formerly
slated over outshut. Rendered end stacks.
Plan and development: C18 two-room central-entrance plan (facing former farmyard to
south), with central entrance/staircase hall, integral end stack to left and external
end stack to right. Continuous outshut to rear, raised by one storey in the C19
(see horizontal straight joint in masonry). Probably C18 short range of outbuildings
adjoining front at right angles to left. Two storeys with outshut of one storey and
attic and one-storey outbuildings.
Exterior: Symmetrical 3-bay front; late C19 three-light wooden casements (in old
openings). Central doorway has C19 boarded door with beaded wooden frame and late
C20 gabled porch. Outbuildings to left have fixed 6-pane window and 2 boarded doors.
Stack in right-hand gable end has projecting semi-circular slate-roofed bread oven.
Pair of late C20 eaves dormers to rear outshut. Garden walls adjoining rear of
house, of uncoursed stone rubble. Three lengths of wall, adjoining north-east corner
of house. Gateway in right-hand wall. Blocked wide gateway in rear wall.
Interior: Not inspected.
The house forms part of a complete small farmstead group, also including a barn and
shippons (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SS5440315936

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26459569

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)