Description

TQ 64 SW CAPEL CASTLE HILL, PEMBURY ROAD

5/216 Castle Hill Farmhouse
20.10.54
II

Farmhouse. Mid/late C17 origins, enlarged and modernised through several
phases, notably in the early C18 and mid C19. Main block is timber-framed and
clad with weatherboarding and the front of the older part is underbuilt with
painted brick and end wall is late C17/early C18 English bond brick; rear
blocks and mid C19 parlour block is red brick with some of upper parts
weatherboarded; brick stacks and chimneyshafts; peg-tile roof.

Plan and Development: Farmhouse is set back from the road and it faces east
north east, say east. Main block has a 3-room plan. At the left (south) end
is a parlour with a projecting gable-end stack. Next is a passage from the
front doorway to the main stair in the C19 rear block. The other side of the
passage is the dining room (the present study) and at the right (north) end is
a large kitchen. An axial stack between the kitchen and dining room serves
back-to-back fireplaces. Rear blocks behind each end, the left one containing
the main stair and room behind with gable-end stack and the right one a wash
house/utility room. Lean-to outshots between the 2 rear blocks contains a
corridor and stair. A C19 parlour block is built parallel to the main block
to the rear of the left rear block and projects north. It has a south end
stack. The present layout is that of the C19. The dining room and passage
section of the main block is C17. The rest has been rebuilt or new built
since. Dating of the various parts is not easy although the main block rear
outshot appears to be part of the C18 alterations.

2 storeys with attics in the main block and the northern rear block room is
open to the roof.

Exterior: Regular but not symmetrical 5-window front of mid C19 casements
with glazing bars. Front doorway is left of centre and contains a mid C19
part-glazed 4-panel door behind a contemporary gabled porch clad with diagonal
planks and with wavey bargeboards. Main roof is gable-ended to left and half-
hipped to right and it contains 4 gabled dormer windows.

Interior: C17 fabric shows only in the passage and dining room/study section
of the main block. The room has a chamfered and scroll-stopped crossbeam and
a large kitchen fireplace with a chamfered oak lintel. The bedchamber above
also has chamfered and scroll-stopped crossbeams, these being the tie beams of
a 3-bay clasped purlin roof. Rest of the main block carpentry is of
noticeably more slender scantling. Exposed beams have narrow chamfers and
roof is also of clasped side purlins. Good C18 and C19 joinery throughout the
house.

Listing NGR: TQ6105743610

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26543189

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Recommended Books

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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)