Description

SK 13 SW PARISH OF DOVERIDGE DERBY ROAD, WEST BROUGHTON
2/8 (South Side)
Home Farm House
13.9.67 II*

Farmhouse. C16, early C18 and C19. Red brick and close studded timber frame with
plaster infil, partly encased in brick and clapboard. Plain tile roofs with three
brick ridge stacks and two gable stacks. Two storeys, irregular plan. East
elevation of four bays with exposed close studded timber frame. Right hand two bays
may be earlier. Twin gabled with central stack and first floor jetty. Clapboard to
upper floor. Ground floor has two 3-light casement windows and a door to the left.
Two similar 3-light windows above and two single-light trefoil-headed windows in the
gables. Large, gabled two storey porch to right, close studded, with middle rail
and diagonal and decorative timbers in the gable. Moulded floor plate. Oak
panelled door to east with 3-light wooden mullioned and transomed window above, with
diamond leaded lights. To the sides of the porch a 4-light and a 3-light wooden
mullion window. Further bay to right with a 3-light wooden casement window to
ground floor and a 2-light window above. North gable end has exposed timbers with
middle rail and moulded brackets. Early C18 west wing of brick with first floor
band and second floor band to south gable end, which has two 2-light casement windows
with gauged brick heads. The lower window has metal diamond lights. To the right
irregular fenestration of tripartite casement windows under segment heads. C19 south
west wing. South gable end to right with chamfered plinth, first floor band, and
to the ground floor a blocked doorway and a blocked window with gauged brick head.
Interior has exposed ceiling beams, centre room on the ground floor has Jacobean
panelling and a stone chimneypiece. Several early Georgian panelled doors. Bedroom
at the south end has a wooden bolection moulded chimneypiece. Within the existing
roof an older, possibly medevial, crown post collar purlin roof of two full bays.
Smokeblackened and with ashlar pieces from the rafters to the wall plates.

Listing NGR: SK1466532634

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17545918

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)