Description

186/5/10034
02-APR-01

TADLEY
SKATES LANE
Skates Farmhouse

GV
II

House. Circa 15; partly rebuilt C17 and C18; extended late C20. Timber-framed. Flemish bond red brick with vitrefied headers and tile-hanging. Clay plain tile roofs with half-hipped end and small gablets to hipped cross-wing roof. Brick axial and lateral side stacks.
PLAN: 2-storey Medieval cross-wing on left; hall on right rebuilt in C17 as 2-storey 1-room plan range with axial stack with straight staircase behind forming entrance lobby. Circa C19 outshut in angle at rear and late C20 single-storey extension on left side.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 1:2 bay SW front. Late C20 2-light casements, centre first floor blocked; central doorway with plank inner door and small late C20 brick porch. Exposed timber-framing with tension-braces on NW side of cross-wing above late C20 single-storey extension. Rear north east, tile-hung projecting cross-wing on right with main roof carried down over outshut in angle.
INTERIOR: Hall has chamfered axial beam with cyma stops, supported at one end on timber corbel and fireplace with chamfered timber bressumer. Cross-wing has broad closely-spaced chamfered floor joists; cross-wing chamber has exposed framing, large curved tension-braces, exposed tie-beams and wall-plates; the hall side of the cross-wing wall has exposed post and large curved braces encrusted with soot from open hearth hall fire; collar-rafter cross-wing roof with intact common-rafter couples, all smoke-blackened. Hall roof has short wind-braces and intact common-rafter couples, all clean.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26539035

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)