Description

BUCKERELL
SY 19 NW

7/106 Colhayes Farmhouse including
- buildings round the courtyard to
the north
II

Farmhouse and 3 ranges of farmbuildings. Circa 1840. Local flint rubble with red
brick and freestone dressings; slate roofs, gabled at ends with deep eaves to the
house; 2 rear lateral brick stacks to the house, brick end stack to kitchen wing,
brick stacks to 2 of the farmbuildings.
Plan: A courtyard arrangement. The south-facing house has a service crosswing at the
east end, forming a T plan. An agricultural building adjoins the north end of the
wing and this, with a north and west range of agricultural buildings - a shippon to
the north and a 2 storey range with stacks to the west - forms an enclosed courtyard
with entrances through doorways on the west side and east side and a second east side
entrance through the east range.
Exterior: 2 storeys to the house. Symmetrical 3-bay south front plus the gabled end
of the crosswing at the right. Deep eaves with paired brackets, the eaves soffit
retaining its plaster in some places, the brick quoins and dressings to the
embrasurers rendered in imitation of rusticated ashlar dressings. Central original
panelled front door with a glazed overlight with diamond glazing bars and a flat
porch canopy on shaped brackets. Set of original 12-pane sashes. The gable end of
the crosswing to the right has a first floor 12-pane sash and a blocked or false
window below, painted in imitation of a sash. A stone shield in the gable may have
carried a date but this is illegible. The left gable end of the house retains curly
bargeboards to the verges and 2 12-pane sash windows. The right return of the
crosswing is 3 bays, the windows with brick dressings and glazed with C20 small-pane
timber casements, those on the ground floor slightly reduced in size, first floor
window left blind or blocked and painted to imitate the rest. The rear elevation of
the house, backing on to the courtyard, is gabled to the left and right, associated
with the lateral stacks, with a round-headed stair window which is glazed as a sash
with margin panes. Original panelled back door into the courtyard from the
crosswing. The farmbuildings are equally unspoiled with their original openings
intact. The east range is lofted and 3-bay to the east (outer) elevation with a
doorway to the left which leads through the building into the courtyard. All the
openings on the elevation have cut stone dressings. Unglazed 3-light timber
mullioned windows, first floor window left blocked or false and painted in imitation
of the others. On the courtyard side this building has an archway into the courtyard
side this building has an archway into the courtyard to the right, and a 3-light
unglazed mullioned ground floor window. A slated pentice extends the length of the
range, extending across the rear door of the house to the right and a doorway through
a wall to the left. The north range, which is single-storey has 5 rear (north)
doorways with segmental arches and brick dressings. On the courtyard side the
building, which has a stack at the east end, has a doorway from the courtyard to the
right. The west range is 2 storeys with 2 lateral stacks on the west (outer) side.
It has a loft opening on the west wall, 2 blocked or false windows on the left
(south) return and, on the courtyard side, a symmetrical 3-bay east elevation with a
central door and 2-light unglazed windows. A short section wall with an original
doorway links this building to the house. The courtyard retains its pitched stone
paving, the house retains its flint rubble garden wall to the south and a gateway
with piers with freestone caps, one cap carved with the letters of the alphabet.
Interior: A part from the replacement of one chimney-piece the interior of the house
is completely unspoiled, with original joinery, a stick baluster stair facing the
front door and a marble chimney-piece and plaster cornice in the left hand room in
the main range. The crosswing is divided between service to the front (south) and a
large farm kitchen to the rear which retains its original massive fireplace with
bread oven and a fine fixed settle which rises to the ceiling. A service stair rises
from the kitchen.
A small C19 farm complex in a remarkably complete state of preservation.

Listing NGR: SY1204699418

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26618477

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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