Description

CHIRBURY C.P. RORRINGTON SJ 20 SE

4/74 Rorrington Hall - 1.12.51 GV II

Farmhouse. Late C15 core, remodelled c.1600, altered and extended mid-C18 and C19. Timber framed with plaster infill; red brick additions largely painted black and white in imitation of timber frame; slate roofs. Complex plan consisting of truncated main range with parallel gabled range to west; east side has 3 gables with plain bargeboards and pointed finials, right taking form of a projecting cross-wing and left probably formerly a 2-storey porch; C19 gabled additions to rear. 2 storeys and attics. Framing: close-set vertical posts with middle rails and long straight tension braces, V-struts from collars to front gables (cusped to cross-wing); north gable end of parallel range to rear, probably formerly jettied,has twisted corner colonnettes and quatrefoil decoration to first-floor middle rail, the latter motif repeated on the middle rail to back wall of main range; C20 framing to present porch and ground floor of cross-wing; left gable ends clad or rebuilt in C18 red brick with raised verges. Late C19 casement fenestration, one on each floor to left gable, 2 on first floor to centre with one above to attic; cross-wing has one window to each floor, that to ground floor on far left; 2 windows to C19 single-storey lean-to in space between left and right gables; present entrance through C19 panelled door in porch; central red brick ridge stack to main range with dentilled band and moulded capping, similar external end stack to left. Interior: inspection not possible at time of resurvey (October 1985) but noted as having chamfered ceiling beams and heavy joists to main ground- floor rooms; Victorian panelling to right ground-floor room of main range, pine staircase and several C20 fireplaces.

Listing NGR: SJ2983200714

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