Description

SO 47 SE
4/25

ELTON CP

Fircroft and adjoining haybarn

II

House and adjoining haybarn. Late C16 with mid-C19 and late C20 alterations.
Timber-framed on rubble base with some rubble and brick walling concealed
beneath sheets of hardboard painted to resemble timber-framing. Corrugated
metal roof with overhanging eaves, hipped at east end and with brick stack
at west end of ridge. Two framed bays aligned east/west. Two storeys.
No framing exposed externally. South front elevation: there is a C19 bay
window with a lean-to roof in the west bay, a single-light first floor casement
in the east bay and the main entrance, in the west bay has a C19 gabled
timber porch with trellis infill and a partly-glazed door. There is a C19
square metal window on both floors at the east end. Interior has some
substantial exposed timbers. Haybarn adjoins west end. Timber-framed and
weatherboarded with corrugated iron roof, hipped at west end. Single framed
bay plus hipped-roofed bay with lean-to at west end. Partly two levels.
Three panels from sill to wall-plate. There is a truncated collar and tie-
beam roof truss at the west end of the main bay. Main entrance in south
elevation. Also door and loft opening to hipped-roofed part. The western-
most bay of the haybarn has probably been rebuilt and the barn re-roofed.

Listing NGR: SO4703470020

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26633170

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