Description

ST MARTIN'S C.P.
SJ 33 NW
2/2 Ifton Hall Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse. Probably late C16 or early C17 with later additions and alterations.
Roughcast concealing timber frame and red brick additions; slate roofs. Hall
range of central baffle-entry plan with 2 parallel gabled cross-wings at
right-angles to rear. One storey and attic with 2 storeys to rear ranges. Late
C20 casements to left and right of central gabled porch, those on ground floor
in contemporary neo-Georgian bows and those above in timber framed gabled half-
dormers with moulded bressummers. C20 plank door. Large rendered ridge stack
immediately to left of entrance with integral lateral stack to left rear gable
and external lateral stack to right rear gable. Gabled projection housing
staircase at junction between main range and right rear gable and C19 lean-to
left gable end. Interior: timber frame (much renewed) exposed throughout to
ground floor, including to square-panelled cross walls; wattle and daub infill
exposed to right gable end of hall range. Chamfered ceiling beams. Open-well
staircase with barleysugar balusters including to newel posts may be partly C19
but moulded handrail and shallow pyramidal cap to bottom newel post look C17.
Collar and tie beam roof in 2 wide bays to main range and similar roofs in
shorter bays to rear gables.

Listing NGR: SJ3271738408

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26648859

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Recommended Books

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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings