Description

STEEP

SU 72 NW
Steep Farmhouse
1068-0/9/10007

II

Farmhouse. Circa C16, partly demolished and extended in C17 and C18. Timber-framed faced in Flemish bond brick and with extensions in English or English garden wall bond and flint with brick dressings. Clay plain tile roofs with gabled and half-hipped ends. Brick axial stack with square shafts. PLAN: Long 4-room-plan range with a cross-wing at the right-hand end, and axial stack between the cross-wing and main range with back to back fireplaces, a porch in the angle at the front and an outshut at the back. The three right-hand roof bays of the main range are all that remaiIlS of the original timber-framed house, which was partly demolished when, in about the mid C17 a further four bays (two rooms in plan) were added to the left end in brick, and possibly later in the C17 a cross-wing was built at the right-hand end. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Long 6-window north front with gabled flint cross-wing to right and gabled 2-storey flint porch in tile angle; 2 and 3 light wooden-framed windows with iron casements with leaded panes, some with cambered brick arches; small ovolo-moulded stone mullion 2-light window to left on ground floor; doorway near centre with plank door and gabled wooden canopy. At rear tile main range roof is carried down over outshut to lower eaves; four gabled dormers. INTERIOR: Chamfered ceiling beams and exposed joists; fireplaces with replaced bressumers. Root The original part of the main range has a 3-bay roof with smoke-blacked purlins and common-rafter couples and to its left a timber-framed gable- end with a diamond-mullion windows now inside the roof; built against it to the left with staggered tenoned (butt) purlins. The cross-wing at the right end has a 4-bay tenoned purlin roof augmented with struts.

Listing NGR: SU7452125838

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558587

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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