Description

LITTLE HORKESLEY KINGS ROAD
1.
5214
Kings Farmhouse
TL 93 SE 3/106 7.4.65
II*
2.
C15 or earlier house. Now on a T-plan due to brick, painted, extension on north.
Timber-framed and plastered and of at least 5 bays with red brick truncated
central chimney stack mounting 6 octagonal shafts with bell-feet. Roof ridged
and gabled peg-tiled with eaves, long jetty on south elevation. Line of jetty
broken at centre with late fascia to east and exposed sill on joists to west.
First storey has a range of 5 windows 2 casements left, and 3 casements right,
then a tripartite window of which the original 'ears' remain. East half has
knees under the jetty and the west has only joists' ends, the whole denting
an original chimney bay. Ground storey windows mixed but including one large
Venetian tripartite window left and right of central door which is of 6 panels
and partly original. The whole truncated at west and because 2 service doors
show on that wall, in a partly exposed frame.

Listing NGR: TL9629631698

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17545398

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  For the Record
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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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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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)