Description

BLEDLOW-CUM-SAUNDERTON ODDLEY LANE
SP 70 SE
1/35 The Old House Farmhouse
(formerly listed as Frogmore
Farmhouse)
21.6.55

- II*

House. Late C15, altered c.1600 and later. Timber frame with brick infill,
the front gable with repointed herringbone and patterned infill. Tiled
roofs, the right side of cross wing with old tiles. Chimney of thin
brick to left of front gable. Irregular T-plan with 2-bay hall to left
and 3-bay cross wing to right. 2 storeys. Barred wooden casements,
mostly C20. Hall has 4-light casement to ground floor left with 2-light
casement in gabled eaves-line dormer above. Right bay has single light
to left and 2 paired casements to first floor. C20 door to right with
C20 tiled lean-to porch. Cross wing has weatherboarded gable, upper
storey jettied on beam ends, and 3-light casements. Lean to along left
side of cross wing in rear angle with hall. C20 single storey extensions
to far end of cross wing and to left of hall, the latter with flat roof.
Interior: hall has fine central truss with moulded tie beam on curved
braces, and arch-braced collar above. Right bay of hall is sub-divided
by truss with chamfered tie beam on curved braces, the left part of
the bay probably once a smoke bay, now with chimney inserted c.1600. Arched
wind-braces in roof. Floor also inserted c.1600, the main left bay with
large stop-chamfered spine beam. Cross wing has original C15 floors
with heavy plain joists, the front bay a parlour with large chamfered
cross beam. Room above has subsidiary central truss with arch-braced
collar, and arched wind-braces.
RCHM I p. 276-277 Mon.5.

Listing NGR: SP7905701896

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17541399

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
• 
  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)