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SK 33 SE
893-0/12/56

Alvaston
CHURCH STREET
No 5, Church Farmhouse

(Formerly listed as Church Farmhouse, CHURCH STREET)
(Formerly listed in the Rural District of South East Derbyshire)

10.11.67

GV
II
House. C16; altered and extended C17; other alterations C19 and C20. Cruck-framed with close-studded side walls infilled and partly replaced by brick on stone plinth; thatched roof under corrugated sheeting. Two storey, two bay main range with partial outshut to north and with one storey and attic, one bay wing to west end. South side: main range has exposed left corner post and incomplete mid-floor rail beneath studding. C20 glazed door to right of centre; on its left a three-light casement with glazing bars beneath a two-light window having twelve-pane casements; two other casements to each floor. Boarded soffit to eaves overhang; brick stacks to right corner and in front of ridge on left. Wing set back on left: square framing with three-light, wooden-mullioned window, end stack.

North side: outshut on left; close studding to first floor of main range. Two doorways; two windows to each floor; two inserted roof dormers. Wing to right: exposed framing with two light casement on left of a doorway. Left return of main range has exposed cruck frame with spurs to corner posts and some stud infill. Right return: rebuilt in brick. Two sixteen-pane sashes below a twenty-pane sash.

Interior: two cruck frames of heavy scantling. Central room floored over in C17: wooden bressumer and heck post to fireplace; chamfered spine beam and joists have broach stops (those to spine beam repeated within passage to east). East room: C16 ceiling joists of heavy scantling resting on transverse beam and reset at higher level in C17 and room divided by stud partition with doorway. First floor: lime-ash floors. Crucks exposed but apex not visible; curved wind braces. West wing has cranked tie beam and cruck-like principals with crossed apex. Fully described and interpreted elsewhere.

See RCHM report (1980) also Derby Buildings Record 15 (1988).

Listing NGR: SK3917033249

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26510835

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair