Description

BRIGHSTONE
SZ48SW LIMERSTONE ROAD
1354-0/8/35 Limerstone Farmhouse including
18/01/67 Brewhouse

II

Farmhouse. Early C17. Built of Isle of Wight stone rubble with
ashlar quoins and hipped C20 tiled roof with red brick stacks.
L-shaped 2 storeys, 3 windows (not regular). 1st floor has 2
triple casements with stone mullions. 3rd window has early C20
wooden architrave. Ground floor has central 4-light stone
mullioned window with stone hood moulding. Left hand window
has remains of C17 stone hood moulding but C19 frame. Right
side window has an C18 stone architrave with later casement.
Cambered headed stone doorcase. Left side elevation has 1 C17
mullioned window to main house and another to the 1st floor of
the wing. Interior has beams with 3 inch chamfers with lamb's
tongue stops. Lounge has late C16 or early C17 panelling and
cocks head hinges. Late C16 oak board painted with text
discovered beneath the floorboards during restoration in 1884.
"Flee sinfull lies flee unkind speeche,
Ye seeke the thing that is above thy reache
And as thou woldst with that others do to thee
So do to them, let work and deed agree.

On this site in the mid C17 an oratory for Black Canons was
founded here by a member of the Tichborne family who owned
this tithing of the Manor of Colbourne from the mid C12 to the
mid C18. Attached to the south is an C18 brewhouse. 1 storey
Isle of Wight stone rubble with some ironstone and peg tiled
roof with 1 brick chimneystack. End quoins. South side has 1
cambered triple casement. Cambered doorway, triangular
buttress and 2 circular iron ties. Casements to rear. Interior
has brick fireplace and queen strut roof with ridgepiece.

Listing NGR: SZ4414682628

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26512798

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Recommended Books

• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)