Description

TQ 53 NE SPELDHURST FARNHAM LANE

8/474 Little Farnham

II

House. C17 origins, refurbished and enlarged in the early C19, some C20
modernisation. Coursed sandstone ashlar and front block is timber-framed
above first floor level, the end walls are weatherboarded; brick stacks and
chimneyshafts; peg-tile roof.

Plan: House faces east south east, say east. Front block has a 2 or 3-room
plan. Axial stack between the centre and right (north) end rooms. Parallel
rear project at right angles to rear of centre and right. Since no internal
inspection was available at the time of this survey details of the internal
arrangements cannot be described. Nevertheless the framing on the front
suggests that the front block is essentially C17, the ground floor level
underbuilt in the C19. It was probably a lobby entrance plan house.

2 storeys with C20 single storey extension on the right (north) end.

Exterior: Attractive 2-window front of C19 and C20 casements with glazing
bars. Left first floor window has a gable over and the right one is a canted
bay under the gable-end of a crosswing. It has plain bargeboards with apex
finial. First floor framing is 3 bays with curving tension braces. The left
end is certainly C17. Front doorway is roughly central. It is behind a
gabled stone porch; segmental outer arch with projecting keystone under a
plaque carved with a heraldic motif. Gable has coping. Main roof is gable-
ended.

Interior: Was not available for inspection at the time of this survey
although the owner reports C17 beams in the front block.

Listing NGR: TQ5505839875

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26533295

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