Description

WEST FARLEIGH LOWER ROAD
TQ 75 SW
(East side)
2/21 Garden House, West Farleigh Hall
(formerly listed
23-5-67 as West Farleigh
Hall, The Stables)
GV II

Stables and coach house, now house. Late C18. Red and grey brick in
Flemish bond. Slate roof. 2-storey central section (probably the coach
house), built gable-end on to courtyard, with single-storey lean-to
flanking sections (probably stables). Chamfered brick plinth. Plat band.
Front gable-ends of lean-tos built up as blind two-storey brick facades
with plain parapet. Central section breaks forward slightly, with
pedimented gable, the base plat band of which continues the line of the
flanking parapet coping. Brick stack towards front, and another towards
rear, of left side of central section. Hexagonal wooden bell cupola with
modillioned cornice, leaded onion dome and weathervane, towards front of
central section. Regular 5-window front of two blind windows with splayed
rubbed brick voussoirs to each flanking section, and central Diocletian
window, the central light of which forms the top of a half-glazed door
which drops through the plat band to the lintel of the panelled ground-
floor garage doors. Flanking sections have doubly-recessed arcading to
ground floor with rubbed brick voussoirs and plat band at impost level.
Each of four arches contains semi-circular fanlight with radiating glazing
bars. Two inner arches have twelve-pane sashes with horns. Left end
arch has boarded door to Garden House, right end has boarded door with
four-light rectangular top light (beneath the fanlight). Interior not
inspected. (Country Life 14th September 1967).

Listing NGR: TQ7134652575

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q96276714

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)