Description

SO 59 NW CARDINGTON C.P. -

5/5 Holt Farmhouse

29.1.52 - II*

Farmhouse. Circa 1600 with some later additions. Roughly coursed yellow/grey sandstone with ashlar dressings; plain tile roof. E-plan; projecting gabled wings and central full-height gabled porch. 2 storeys and attic. Plinth; integral brick lateral stack to front off-centre to right and large central external stone lateral stack at rear with red brick top. 5-window front; 2-light double-chamfered mullioned stone windows; small square attic windows with chamfered brick reveals; central C20 half-glazed door to porch with flat-arched lintel and old nail-studded boarded door set back behind with strap hinges. Probably C19 lean-to-rubble addition to left with lateral brick stack. Right- hand return front with 2-light first-floor and attic windows and ground- floor C19 three-light-framed metal casement probably replacing earlier window (see dressed stone of former window in wall to left). Probably C18 or C19 one storey and attic wing at rear. Interior: rectangular- panelled timber framed cross-walls; hall: ovolo-moulded spine beam with run-out stops resting on scroll brackets carved out of posts; large open fireplace with ogee-stopped chamfered lintel; old boarded cellar door; C18 corner cupboard has door with 6 raised and fielded panels; chamfered doorway to old winder staircase. First-floor ceiling beam is said to rest on plain brackets carved out of posts.

Listing NGR: SO5349996524

External Links

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