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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17553159

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5