Description

ALMELEY CP ALMELEY WOOTTON SO 35 SW 1/24 Summer House 20.2.53 GV II

Farmhouse. Probably C16 with earlier origins, altered in early C20. Sandstone rubble and timber-frame with brick and plaster infill. Tile and Welsh slate roofs with sandstone and brick stacks. Rectangular plan aligned roughly north-east/south-west. Cellar, two storeys and attics. North elevation has 1:2:1 windows, late C19 casements of two lights arranged beneath three gables. Ground floor has small top vent mid-C20 to left-hand gable, a 3-light contemporary casement to centre gable, and an early C20 window of six segmentally headed lights to right-hand gable. Entry in ledged door to central gable. The two left gables have their tops decorated with oak concave sided lozenges each brace of which has a spur. The right-hand gable has matching patterns painted on brickwork. Attached to left side is a small lean-to. On the right-hand return of the right gable is a recessed lower range with its front masked by corrugated iron lean-to and a sandstone and brick stack to its right gable. South elevation has 1:3 early C20 timber-framed gables with roughcast infill. Glazed off-centre porch, also early C20, contains ledged door with strap hinges, possibly C17. Interior inaccessible at time of re-survey (November 1986). RCHM indicates that the Summer House incorporates a medieval hall and notes C17 panelling and a fireplace inter alia. (BOE, p 65; RCHM, Vol III, p 6 - 7).

Listing NGR: SO3326152531

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