Description

TQ 64 SW CAPEL SYCHEM LANE, FIVE OAK GREEN

5/287 Farm Office approx lm north of
9.5.90 Lydd Farmhouse

GV II

Former farm office, now used as a workshop and store. Mid/late C19. Timber-
framed, clad with weatherboards; brick stack and chimneyshaft; peg-tile roof.

Plan: Unusually ornate farm office, deliberately picturesque. Single storey
one-room plan building built in front and to left of Lydd Farmhouse (q.v.).
Front gable-end faces north west with porch on the right (south western) side
at the front. Rear gable-end stack.

Exterior: Front gable end has C19 casements with glazing bars, one on top of
the other. Gable has cusped bargeboards with timber finial and pendant.
Porch to right has front and back segmental arches on shaped imposts. The
outer (right hand) side is open and filled with a wooden trellis. Above this
level, on all four sides are rectangular fixed pane windows with margin panes
of coloured glass. Small modillion eaves cornice. Deep eaves supported by
shaped brackets on the corners and tall splay-footed spire-like roof with a
weathervane at the apex. Doorway beneath contains C19 part-glazed and similar
double doors in opposite long wall.

Interior: Not inspected.

This former office adds considerable interest to the group of attractive
traditional farmbuildings around Lydd Farmhouse (q.v.).

Listing NGR: TQ6444844753

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26545233

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Recommended Books

• 
  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)