Description

LETCOMBE BASSETT SU38NE 7/128 White's Farmhouse 25/10/51 GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Late C16; remodelled c.1670. Random bond brick on sarsen base; stone slate roof, brick stacks. 3-unit lobby entry plan, rear wing of c.1670. 2-storey, 5-window range. C20 hood over mid C19 5-panelled door. Brick soldier arches to ground floor, segmental arches to first floor, over C20 casements. Brick diaper patterning string course and eaves bandy sundial top left. Hipped and gabled roof; ridge and right end stack. IB 1670 in flared headers to top right gable, which also has original 4-light wood-mullion and transomed casement, and rectangular panels with flint infill. Interior: Cellar, right room has chamfered and stopped beam, 2-panelled C17 door, cast iron door to breadoven in fireplace; fireplace with moulded limestone architrave in centre room has pulvinated frieze to overmantle, flanked by C17 panelling; 2-panelled door with decorative hinges to cupboard adjoining dog- leg with landing stairs in stair turret. First floor has timber framed wall with late C16 three light ovolo-moulded wood-mullioned window at junction with rear right wing; rear gallery gives access to stairs and rooms along front; C17 panelling and doors, fireplaces with moulded chalk architrave to right and centre rooms; timber framing to left and right walls of left room. Attic has 8- bay collar-truss roof with butt purlins. Single storey wing of c.1670 to rear right; brick, continued from right gable of house; tiled; 3-window range; 3-bay common rafter roof with butt purlins; c.1670 stair turret between rear wing and rear wall. Late C20 wing to rear left. (Frederick T. Barrett," Letcombe Bassett Then and flow." 1950 (reprinted 1980), pp 22-23.)

Listing NGR: SU3746485191

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