Description

CORSHAM ROUGH STREET, ST 86 NE Lypiatt 3/365 Little Lypiatt Farmhouse II

Farmhouse, C17 and early C18, rubble stone with stone tiled roofs. 'L'-plan. Two storeys and attic. Garden front has east end wall stack and west wall-face stack, 4-window range with 2 dormers flanking dormer gable with datestone CC 1674 and 3-light recessed cyma-moulded window with hoodmould. Recessed cyma-moulded first floor windows, 3-light to left, two 2-light to right and 3-light with hoodmould and datestone WC 1674 at landing level under dormer gable. Three ground floor 2-light recessed chamfered windows with hoodmoulds, possibly earlier C17. West end wall has attic single light and first floor 2-light recessed cyma-moulded window. Rear wing has one ground floor 3-light recessed ovolo-moulded window and hoodmould to west, north end stack and east front earlier C18 two storey, 2-window range of 12-pane sashes in raised moulded surrounds with moulded band and coved eaves cornice. One ground floor window obscured by early C20 two storey canted addition in angle. East end converted stable and loft range with 2 upper C18 flush cyma-moulded windows and 3 lower C19 or early C20 sashes, one in blocked central opening. Two end wall stacks on rear slope. Little Lypiatt was held by the Lypiatt family from early C14, passed to the Keynes family in C15, to J. Thrift 1603, W. Gibbons in later C17 and to the Hulbert family who held it from 1696 to the mid C19. (H. Brakspear, Corsham, 19 27-8).

Listing NGR: ST8693468411

External Links

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