Description

TF 90 NE
5/96

SHIPDHAM
THORPE ROW
Beech Farmhouse

- II

Former farmhouse. C16 and later.
Rendered timber frame replaced with brick to south. Pantile roof. Vestigial screens passage plan with former opposed entrances. One and a half storeys. South facade has 3 bays of 2-light C19 casement windows with apparent wooden lintels and rectangular hood moulds to ground floor. Off-centre C20 glazed door in original position beneath a C19 gabled hood on curved brackets. North facade has 3 bays of 3-light casements and a modern door opposite an off-centre axial stack. C19 gabled hood on curved brackets and with shaped barge boards. Added gable-end.stack to west.
Interior. Elaborately moulded re-used bridging joists with chamfered joists in hall. Pair of re-set service doors with 4-centred heads. 4-centred head to former north door. Fine queen post roof truss with cambered tie and arched braces.

Listing NGR: TF9697308839

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26626547

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)