Description

SO 61 NE LONGHOPE MONMOUTH ROAD (north side)

6/131 Hartsbarn Farmhouse

23.9.55 GV II

Farm house; early and late C17 or early C18; front facade English garden wall bond brick, remainder random rubble stonework: slate roof. 3-room plan with projecting rear wing. Front 7 windows, central slightly more closely spaced, 2 storeys with attics. Windows timber mullion and transom, cyma moulding internally, iron casements, flat, rubbed-brick arches; recessed rectangular panels below first-floor windows. Four-panel wide front door, with square-headed 2-pane fanlight, up three semi-circular stone steps. Above a plain shell hood, on acanthus consoles. Stone plinth to left with elliptical heads to cellar windows: on far left steps up from cellar to garden. Curved, plastered eaves with low, central pediment, containing circular leaded-light window with raised rim and keys. Right-hand gable shows line of earlier, steeper-pitch front roof: 4-light dairy window set towards back, three glazed lights, one shuttered, all with diamond-set iron bars: timber lintel. Above 4-light timber mullion window, plain chamfer, timber lintel with flat stone hoodmould above: similar 3-light window to second floor and lintel only surviving of window to cockloft. Slightly-recessed lean-to wing behind. Internally 2-panel doors in hall and on first floor, latter with H- hinges. Spiral-twisted balusters to stairs, heavy, moulded handrail, plain, square newels; originally open down to cellar. Stair in projecting rear wing. Rooms to right lower ceilings and upper floors, left from first house: facade taken across, so that windows rise above ceiling level. Roof of right-hand section has collar trusses with angle struts, one principal rafter taken down like upper cruck.

Listing NGR: SO6759518478

External Links

• Wikidata Q26632062

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  For the Record
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)