Description

TM 09 SE OLD BUCKENHAM B1077
(Northeast, Off)

84/4/10009 Carr Farm

II

Includes: Carr Farm, ATTLEBOROUGH ROAD

House. Early C17 with later alterations and extensions. Timber-frame with C20 brick facing to front, colourwashed render to rear over full-length clay-lump extension. Roof of pantiles, mostly black glazed, with catslide to rear over the extension. C17 brick central ridge stack of 6 linked octagonal shafts, the tops probably truncated later when overall top added. Further later stack to rear roof slope. PLAN: 2-unit lobby-entry plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3-window range of 3-light casements. Central gabled porch and door. Rear has 2-light casements with canted bay and doors. Single-storey projecting extension. INTERIOR: close-studded framing partly visible with jowled posts and tension braces; chamfered bridging beams. Back-to-back brick open fireplaces with basket arches, and deep cupboard through stack behind fireplaces. Set of C18 open shelves with shell head. Blocked 4-light wooden mullion window in right-hand room. 2-, 4-, and 6-panel doors. Winder stair. Bolection-moulded fireplaces on first floor. C17 panelled door with cocks-head hinges to cupboard into stack on attic stair. Curved wind braces to butt-purlin roof. Though presenting a C20 front, this house retains much of its early C17 original construction intact.

Listing NGR: TM0648592305

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26537908

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey