Description

SS 20 SW MARHAMCHURCH

7/46 Langford Hill
28.9.61

- II*

House. C16 origins, early C18 remodelling and extension, some early C20
alterations. Stone rubble with scantle slate roofs with gabled ends, 4 dressed
stone chimneys, other chimneys brick, some C16/17 handmade ridge tiles. Evidence
that C16 house was large 'L' plan. The C18 remodelling incorporated the earlier
house into a larger, double depth 'L' plan consisting of south facing main range
with service rooms to the east and north-east. The C18 build probably also
included the addition of projecting front wings adjoining the east and west
corners of the main range. In the early C20 the projecting wings were rebuilt as
a single storey billiard room (west wing) and chapel (east wing). Present plan
of main range has a south entrance into a C19 passage which leads into a stair
hall and stair gallery running axially at the rear of the house. 2 storeys.
Asymmetrical 8 window front with large C19 glazed gabled conservatory with
interlaced glazing bars in Gothick style in the gable. Ground floor windows have
granite lintels and are grouped in irregularly spaced bays with the first floor
windows directly above. Ground floor left : 2 hornless sashes 6 panes above 6
panes 2 other windows to left of conservatory the same pattern sashes with horns.
To the right of the porch 3 sash 6 panes above 6 panes with segmental heads. 8
first floor hornless sashes 6 panes above 6 panes under pediments which rise
above the eaves line. All sashes but 2 to left of conservatory with exposed
boxes. The east front with 3 C18 segmental sashes over 2 wider C18 sashes with
10 panes top and bottom each side of 4 panel door.
Interior: Ground floor room to left of porch has moulded plaster ceiling with a
central oval and mouldings that continue in the entrance passage which has
partitioned off part of the room. Panelled shutters to windows. Ground floor
room left completely panelled in white-painted early C18 panelling. Dining room,
ground floor room right panelled throughout in early C20. Early C18 open well
stair with turned balusters. Stair well lit by large Venetian window. Kitchen
and service rooms have slate floors. Chamfered stone Tudor blocked doorway, now
internal, led into north east wing of earlier house, now largely service rooms.
North east wing has 3 trusses with principals with curved feet, probably raised
crucks, and 2 tiers of trenched purlins. Roof at east end of main range has 2
similar principals, 2 tiers of purlins, collars halved and side-pegged, wind
bracing. First floor room in main range to left of porch has boxed-in
principals, probably 2 raised crucks. Roof space above inaccessible at time of
visit. Cupola with weathervane at rear of main range. Ground floor windows to
left of porch have granite sills reused from ullioned window. Front wall
formerly cob with stone facing, cob removed early C20. Carew shows John Langford
as owner of Langford Hill in 1602, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, ed. F E
Halliday (1969). The house was in the possession of the Bray family when the
Church of England Institute (q.v.) was built in Marhamchurch in 1913.

Listing NGR: SS2367401334

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17535307

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Recommended Books

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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)