Description

COLESHILL SU2393 Courtleaze Farmhouse 6/43 GV II Farmhouse. C17 core with a 1752 addition and extensive early C19 alterations. Rubble stone with brick dressings to all facades except the principal SE front which is cement rendered and the NE front which has stone gabled windows. Gabled slate roofs with dressed stone copings and cement rendered brick stacks. U shaped plan with SE front of 2 storeys, 3 bays and a gabled 2-storey half octagon end to the SW. Early C19 small-pane sashes under arched window heads, C20 glazed door with an early C19 latticed porch with a copper hood. The SW range has Gothic glazing in 2-light casements under flat heads with dripstones and to the NW a projecting dairy, built in 1752 as recorded on a datestone inscribed 'MSP 1752'. This is of one storey with Gothic glazing and 2 half hipped slate roofs with a central valley. Interior: there is a stopped and chamfered beam in the SE room on the ground floor of the principal front. The dairy has C18 stained glass, a mosaic floor and C19 wall tiling including the Pleydell-Bouverie crest.

Listing NGR: SU2365193578

External Links

• Wikidata Q26477492

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Recommended Books

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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)