Description

LONGWORTH HIGH STREET (South side) SU39NE Marten's Hall Farmhouse 3/147 GV II

Farmhouse, now house. c.1760. Flared Flemish bond brick with red brick dressings and string to front; all other walls of coursed limestone rubble; stone slate roof; brick stacks. L-plan. 2 storeys; 5-window range. Semi-ciruclar arch over late C19 six-panelled door with plain fanlight. Segmental arches over 6-panelled sashes and blind windows to second bay from right. Dentilled eaves. Gabled roof; gable end to left and ridge stacks, finished in dog-tooth brickwork. Right gable wall has late C19 horned sash over C18 sash. Similar 2-storey, 2-window range to rear right has timber lintels over 6-panelled door with moulded brackets to flat hood and late C19 three-light casements; similar brick gable end stack. Late C19 two-storey, one-bay gabled extension to rear with flat brick arches over tripartite sashes. Interior: 3-unit range to front has late C19 straight-flight stairs, C18 two-panelled doors but mainly plain late C19 two- and 4-panelled doors, and 8-bay collar-truss roof with butt and clasped purlins. Similar roof to rear right, which has chamfered and stopped beam on ground floor.

Listing NGR: SU3910899252

External Links

• Wikidata Q26649850

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