Description

WINFORTON CP WINFORTON SO 24 NE 5/124 Old Cross Farmhouse 19/8/53 (formerly listed as Cross House) - II Farmhouse, now house. Circa 1400, altered and extended C17 with further mid- C19 and mid-C20 alterations. Timber-framed with painted brick and rendered infill on rubble base, some rubble walling and painted brick refacing and replacement walling; stone-tiled roofs laid in diminishing courses with a pair of rubble diagonal ridge stacks with rebuilt brick caps at west end of C17 part. Originally a medieval hall and cross-wing plan of which the cross-wing survives and is of two cruck-framed bays aligned north/south. The hall range on the east side was rebuilt in the C17 and has a large chimney back adjacent to the cross-wing and a continuous lean-to outshut at rear with a catslide roof. Single storey and attic. Framing: part of cruck trusses with collars survive at both ends of cross-wing. C17 range has three panels from sill to wall-plate, short straight upper corner braces and a collar and tie-beam truss with four struts and a V-strut above the collar at the east end. North front elevation: C17 range has a ground floor 2-light casement. Cross-wing gable end has a ground floor casement also of two lights and a pair of attic lights with a continuous plank weathering. Main entrance has a gabled timber porch with two-centred archway, inserted C20 door and glazing within the arched.head. Attic light at east gable end. Interior: the central cruck truss survives within the cross-wing. (RCHM, III, p 213, item 5; BoE, p 323; Alcock, NW: CBA Cruck Catalogue, 1981).

Listing NGR: SO2976547013

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