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SZ79NW
100-0/9/10008

HAVANT
Mengham, Hayling Island
SELSMORE ROAD
Mengham Farm House

(Formerly listed as SELSMORE LANE Mengham Farmhouse)

II

House, formerly a farmhouse. Circa late C16 or early C17; altered in C17, C18, C19 and C20. Roughcast timber-frame. Plain tile hipped roof Brick axial and end stacks.

PLAN: Three-room plan, service room to the right [east]; with a smoke-bay and possibly an open hall originally. If open, the hall would have been floored in the C17; later in C17 or in the C18 a stack was inserted into the smoke-bay, a lobby entrance entrance formed at the front and a winder staircase installed beside the stack at the back. Later in the C18 or early in the C19 an outshut was built at the back and a large oven built at the right [east] end. Late C20 wing to rear left.

EXTERIOR: one-storey and attic. Asymmetrical four-window south front. Two and three-light casements with glazing bars; three gabled attic dormers with two-light casements with glazing bars; doorway to right of centre with C20 gabled porch. Stack at right [east] end with large oven at base. Roof at rear carried down over outshut; small C20 wing on right.

INTERIOR: Timber-framing exposed. Right hand room has chamfered axial beam with middle section scarfed in, brick fireplace in later outshut on right end with chamfered timber lintel and large brick bread oven. The hall and inner room to left have flamed partition between; chamfered axial beams with hollow-step stops, the inner room with triangular stop, chamfered joists with cyma or hollow-step stops; hall has large brick fireplace with chamfered cambered lintel. In the attic chambers exposed wall-framing with jowled posts, tension-braces and wall-plate; queen-post trusses with clasped purlins and wind-braces. In the roof-space there is smoke-blackening in the smoke-bay, the common-rafters over the hall appear to be clean.


Listing NGR: SZ7243499153

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  For the Record
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version