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SX8399 Great Park Farmhouse and attached 672-1/4/1 shippon and poundhouse

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Farmhouse and adjoining shippon and poundhouse. Farmhouse 1830s; barn and poundhouse earlier, probably C18. Farmhouse local volcanic trap with ashlar dressings and rusticated quoins, rear wing and right (west) return roughcast; slate roof;ridge and end stacks with brick shafts. Shippon and poundhouse red cob on stone rubble footings; corrugated plastic roof, probably originally thatched. Plan: T-plan farmhouse, with 3-room through passage plan to main range and former dairy to ground floor of rear wing extended with a brick lean-to to west. The shippon and poundhouse is a lofted L-shaped block, adjoining the house at the rear right (north east). The poundhouse at the north end projects at right angles on the east side. Exterior: 2 storeys. Long, asymmetrical 4-window front with regular fenestration and deep, boarded eaves. The chimney shafts have blind slits in the brickwork. Panelled front door to right of centre with an overlight with diamond panes. All windows iron-frame casements with small, square panes and moulded mullions: 4 first floor 2-light windows, outer ground floor similar, 3-light casement to left of the front door. The right return is similar, the left return is roughcast. Rear dairy wing gable-ended with later windows. Panelled back door to through passage. The shippon of the shippon/poundhouse range to the rear has roof hipped at the north end. The west side, facing the yard to the rear of the house, has a doorway to the left, into the poundhouse; a doorway to the right, into the shippon, 3 ground floor windows and 3 loft windows. The north end has a wide modern doorway to the right, into the poundhouse, a decayed window alongside to the left with a timber lintel and a 2-light first floor window. Interior: House not inspected but likely to retain original features. Shippon/poundhouse has internal brick partition and king post and strut roof of an early C19 character. Built for the Downes estate. The farmhouse has an interesting plan form for its date, similar to Wellparks (q.v.), also a Downes estate farm, and represents either a rebuild or very late survival of a 3-room and cross-passage plan. The agricultural building survives from an earlier phase, before the planned yard to the south west of the farmhouse was built and is an important item in the historic farm group.

Listing NGR: SX8314999315

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• Wikidata Q26491598

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)