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Wrights Farm House

A Grade II* Listed Building in Combe, West Berkshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.3511 / 51°21'3"N

Longitude: -1.4749 / 1°28'29"W

OS Eastings: 436667

OS Northings: 161465

OS Grid: SU366614

Mapcode National: GBR 710.CXR

Mapcode Global: VHC26.D95L

Plus Code: 9C3W9G2G+C3

Entry Name: Wrights Farm House

Listing Date: 8 June 1984

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1221121

English Heritage Legacy ID: 394758

ID on this website: 101221121

Location: Combe, West Berkshire, RG17

County: West Berkshire

Civil Parish: Combe

Traditional County: Hampshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Berkshire

Church of England Parish: Combe

Church of England Diocese: Oxford

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Description


COMBE
SU 36 SE
15/1 Wrights Farm House
II*
Farmhouse now 2 houses and post office. C14 with C19 fronting. Brick
front to East, timber frame with rendered infill to North and flint and
brick dressings to West. Tiled roof with half hip to North, ridge
chimneys to South flank and one bay from North. 2 storeys. East front:
Wide glazing bar sashes flanking door under gabled porch with narrow sash
over, 2 further sashes to right the left of which is blocked on the first
floor. Under a catslide roof on the Western side of the house can be seen
the head of a 4 light window with cusped tops to lights under eaves.
North Wall has large cruck frame exposed. Interior: 5 bays of crucks;
in the roof 2 bays to the South are clean, three short central bays are
sooted and the purlins chamfered and stopped with arch braces to the
central collar ties, the North bay is longer and sooted, all bays have
large curved windbraces below the purlins. While ground and first floors
are on the surface C19 the cruck frames can be traced to ground level and
from the roof it is evident that some of the early infill walls remain.
The chimney at the southern end of the North bay has C16 brickwork in it,
while the extreme southern end of the roof is C19 and C20.


Listing NGR: SU3666761465

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