Description

TQ 64 NW CAPEL POSTERN LANE, TUDELEY

1/273 Postern Park Farmhouse
20.10.54
II

Farmhouse. Mid/late C18, parts may be earlier, various late C18 and C19
extensions. Part brick, part timber-framed. Ground floor level is red brick,
randomly bonded tending to English bond and with some decorative burnt headers
on the end walls; framed first floor is tile-hung and some framing is exposed
at ground floor level to rear; brick stacks and chimneyshafts; peg-tile roof.

Plan: Double depth plan house facing south. The 3 front rooms are the main
rooms with service rooms to rear. Central entrance hall with stair block to
rear flanked by kitchen to left (west) and parlour to right (east). Both
kitchen and parlour have rear lateral stacks. Parts of the rear section are
additions, the left end part to rear of the kitchen certainly is. Although
modernised with extensions in the C19 the original layout is preserved. House
is 2 storeys with attics in the roofspace of the front block and a cellar
under the centre.

Exterior: Not quite symmetrical front. Central front doorway now contains a
C20 doorway. C19 12-pane sashes adjacent each side and 2 more to right. To
left a C20 horned 6-pane sash. Timber moulded cornice at first floor level
and return round the end walls. 3 first floor 20-pane sashes. Plain eaves
and roof is hipped both ends and contains 3 dormer windows, C19 casements with
glazing bars and hipped roofs. Rear section is lower with gable-ended
crossroofs. Rear has large central 12-pane sash to the stairs and each side
are 20-pane sashes to the first floor rooms.

Interior: Only the ground floor level was accessible at the time of this
survey. Very little carpentry is exposed and none in the front rooms. Most
of the joinery is C19 including an open string stick baluster stair with
mahogany handrail. The window reveals have fielded panel shutters, which may
be original and more original joinery probably survives upstairs. Roof was
not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ6144946300

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26552818

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