Description

HAMSTERLEY DIDDRIDGE LANE NZ 13 SW (East side) 11/50 Edge Knoll 5.2.87 Farmhouse and attached farm buildings GV II House, circa 1725 with C19 and C20 alterations. Thinly-rendered rubble with coarse sandstone ashlar dressings, quoins and part boulder plinth; stone- flagged roof with stone ridge and stone gable copings. Main range with 3 rear wings. 2 storeys, 4 bays, the fourth wider; one-storey, 2-bay farmbuildings set back at left; one-storey, one-bay right extension. One-storey porch, in second bay, has embattled parapet over renewed double doors in segmental- headed moulded stone surround with dropped key. Plain sashes with flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. Battlemented parapet over right extension with C20 masonry and glazed door with glazing bars. Roof has curved kneelers; 3 corniced ridge chimneys with strings. Rear wings slightly lower, with gables treated in similar manner; side stone steps to first-floor door in right wing.

Interior shows large chamfered beams; round-headed corner cupboard in one ground-floor room.

Listing NGR: NZ1327431747

External Links

• Wikidata Q26608563

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)