Description

TM 48 SW WESTHALL BACON'S GREEN ROAD

3/39 Beacon Farmhouse (formerly
- listed as Bacon's
1-9-55 Farmhouse)

- II*

Farmhouse. Mid C16 and early C17. 2 storeys. Timber-framed; rendered front,
with the main posts left exposed, and traces of simple pargetting; the rear
wall and south-west end faced in C19 red brick, colour-washed; pantiles, 2
chimney-stacks with plain red brick shafts. The house has an outstanding set
of early C17 mullion-and-transome windows, mainly 4-light, with ovolo moulded
mullions and chamfered transomes; pintle hinges. At the south-west end of the
front, one 3-light diamond mullioned window on the ground floor. Of the same
date, an enclosed and gabled red brick porch with a moulded lintel to the
rectangular doorway and a fine ledged and battened door. Frame in 6 bays: at
the north-east end of the front 2 main posts support sawn-off sections of an
earlier and lower wallplate and have been heightened later; within the house,
this section has a marked difference in the upper floor level. The main
entrance door, formerly part of a cross-entry, leads directly into a 2-bay
room with a fine moulded ceiling: multiple roll-mouldings to the main beam,
and a single roll to the joists. The open fireplace in the same room has a
plain timber lintel.

Listing NGR: TM4192881381

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17546997

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Old House Care and Repair