Description

NUNEATON ANSLEY ROAD, Robinson's End
SP39SW
(South side)
1/10004 Robinson's End Farmhouse
II

Farmhouse. Circa early C18 remodelling and enlarging of circa
C17 house. Sandstone rubble with dressed quoins and large
lintels; red brick rear wing. Plain tile roof with gabled
ends. Brick axial stacks.
PLAN: 2-room plan front [east] range with smaller left room;
both rooms heated from back-to-back fireplaces in central
axial stack; and with stair tower behind the left room in
angle with 2-room plan rear service wing. Rear wing appears to
be the original circa C17 house with a large fireplace in an
axial stack.
EXTERIOR:2-storey and attic, 2-window east range. Windows have
quoins and large sandstone lintels with relieving arches
above; C20 2-light casements; no front doorway. Sandstone
masonry continues into base of stair tower in rear left
[south-west] angle of rear wing, brick above with lean-to
roof. In opposite [north-west] angle doorway and C19
open-sided porch.Rear wing has various casements, C20
conservatory on south side and single storey outbuildings on
west end.
INTERIOR: Rooms in front [east] range have high ceilings and
slightly chamfered cross-beams; similar chamfered beams in
chambers above. East room in rear [west] wing has deeply
chamfered axial beam without stops and large fireplace with
unchamfered timber lintel; room behind [west] has unchamfered
cross-beams. Winder stairs in tower with C18 balustrade at top
with moulded balusters, square newel and moulded handrail.
East range attic chambers ceiled. Rear [west] wing has large
side purlins exposed in chambers, large ridgepiece and old
common rafters.

Listing NGR: SP3158490960

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26552591

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Recommended Books

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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (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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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas