Description

SK 13 NW PARISH OF MARSTON MONTGOMERY BOWLING ALLEY LANE
4/48 (East Side)
Banktop Farmhouse
II

Farmhouse. C17, refronted in C18,with minor later alterations. Timber framing,
partly encased and partly rebuilt in red brick with brick dressings. Steeply
pitched red plain tile roof with brick gable and ridge stacks. Two storeys plus
garrets, four bays with two storey porch. South elevation has two segment headed
windows to west, that to east 3-light glazing bar casement, that to west with uneven
2-light glazing bar casement. To east, porch has four-centred arched doorcase with
C20 glazed door and beyond, C20 window under segment head. Above, three flat headed
shallow glazing bar casement windows, that to west an uneven 2-light window and others
3 light Porch has smaller 3-light casement window. Over the windows, just under
the eaves, is a large timber wall plate with evidence of the front wall originally
having been a close studded timber frame. Elsewhere in the house the timber frame
has been encased, rather than rebuilt. The double purlin roof structure still survives

Listing NGR: SK1348037170

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26570325

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)