Description

SO 23 NE MICHAELCHURCH ESCLEY CP -

Oldhouse Farmhouse and 1/43 attached range of _ agricultural buildings

GV II

Farmhouse and attached range of agricultural buildings. Probably late C16 - late C17, partly altered in C19 and mid-C20. Rubble roughcast, slate and corrugated iron roofs, brick end stacks. Domestic part to east has 2-cell plan and staircase projection to rear; attached to west is barn, stable and cow house range in dry stone rubble. Domestic part: 2 storeys, 2 windows, south elevation covered in roughcast, evenly placed mid-C20 metal casements, one to west and 2 to first floor, contemporary ledged door to east. West part: corrugated iron roof, 2 storeys, probably 4 structural bays, 3 small square shuttered windows or pitch-holes to upper floor, 3 ledged C19 doors evenly spaced, the east one hard against junction with domestic part. Low entrance above 4' 6" high in west gable end. Interior: domestic part has very thick walls with splayed window openings; flagged floors; plank and muntin screen with 4-centred opening at its north end acts as partition wall between C20 front door and casement. Winding rubble staircase with oak treads to north side of west fireplace is illuminated by small oak-pegged single light window with one lead came. Interior of west range has 2 trusses of machine-cut C19 king posts and struts at end farthest from domestic part (intervening part inaccessible) and beneath a cow house with access from the low door in the west gable end. Rubble hoods survive on the stacks and above a small oak diamond section mullioned window at the north-east side of the west range which retain the centre 2 of 4 mullions.

Listing NGR: SO2943837679

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