Description

DUNSFORD FARRANTS HILL
SX 88 NW
6/52 Farrants Farmhouse and garden wall
to the south west

GV II

Farmhouse. Circa early C18 remodelling of an earlier house, refenestrated in the
C19. Whitewashed rendered cob on stone rubble footings; slate roof (formerly
thatched), gabled at ends; projecting end stacks with brick shafts.
Plan uncertain but it appears to be 3 front rooms, the centre room may be a wide
hall, flanking rooms heated from gable end stacks. At the rear 2 smaller unheated
service rooms in an integral outshut with a stairwell at the centre.
2 storeys. Asymmetrical 5-window front with regular fenestration of 2-light C19
casements, 6 panes per light, 5 to the ground floor, 3 to the first floor. C19 front
door to the right under a long slate pentice carried on rustic wooden posts and
rising as atimber gable in the centre. To the rear in the centre a slightly raised
raking roof, possibly above the staircase, one 4-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window
to the rear.
Interior Not thoroughly inspected, the central ground floor room has a chamfered
unstopped cross beam, fireplaces said to have C20 grates.
An outbuilding to the rear right (north east) forms a narrow rear courtyard with a
parallel wall. To the south west a tall cob garden wall on stone rubble footings has
corrugated iron and tile capping and a doorway leading to the farmyard and the circa
C16 barn.

Listing NGR: SX8349689474

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26576685

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings