Description

PETROCKSTOWE NORTH TOWN, Petrockstowe
SS 50 NW
8/54 Syncocks Farmhouse
-
- II
Farmhouse. Circa mid C17 with later C17 additions. Mainly plastered cob and rubble
walls. Thatch roof gabled to right end, hipped to left and front wing. Brick stack
at right gable end and 1 axial on front wing.
Plan: originally likely to have had 2-room plan, right-hand room heated. Probably
later in C17 it was extended by 1 room at the left-hand end and a 1-storey wing
added at the front of it of which the end room is an outbuilding and the inner room
heated.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2-window front of C20 2 and 3-light casements
with C19 plank door at centre. This is under a corrugated iron roofed pentice porch
which extends as far as the 1-storey wing projecting from the left end of the house
which has a plank door on its inner face and door and outbuilding window on end
wall.
Interior: not fully accessible but 1 chamfered axial beam visible to inner room of
wing. Other beams and features such as open fireplaces and early roof timbers may
also survive.

Listing NGR: SS5109709787

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26596142

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