Description

BROUGHTON BRIDGE ROAD
1.
5140
(west side)
Birds Farmhouse
TL 27 NE 3/10
II GV
2.
Late C17 or early C18 farmhouse. Two-storeys and attics with lower two-storey range
to left hand. Gabled stair turret to rear with dentil brick eaves cornice. Two
single brick bands in east gable wall. Plain tile roofs. Ridge stack to left of
centre and later, rough-cast end stack to right hand. Two flat-roofed hung sash
dormer windows with glazing bars. Three first-floor hung sashes with glazing bars in
flat arches and three ground-floor hung sashes with side lights. Modern door to left
hand, in triangular pedimented, open porch. Interior has two large inglenook hearths,
one sealed. Stop-chamfered ceiling beams and original closed string staircase with
square sectioned newels with ball finials.

Listing NGR: TL2801777824

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26615669

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]