Description

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SK 04 SE
7/119

FARLEY C.P.
FARLEY
Farley Hall and attached wall, greenhouse and billiard room

(formerly listed as Farley Lodge)

2/5/53

GV
II
Large house. C17 in origin with late C18 and mid-C19 remodelling. Timber framed on stone plinth now plastered with imitation timber framing to first floor; plain tile roof; plastered ridge stacks and integral end stack. Aligned. north west/south east facing south west with later extensions to the rear. Main house of two storeys and attic to the left and two storey single-bay wing to the right.

Main house: three gabled bays, tripartite windows containing glazing bar sashes, those to left and right are incorporated within two storey canted bay windows; central glazed door within a lean-to porch. Wing: ground-floor bay window and tripartite first floor window, both with glazing bar sashes. Ashlar wall attached to the right, approximately 27 metres long terminated by a billiard room, and with an attached greenhouse roughly half-way along.

Billiard room: dated 1866. Ashlar; plain tile roof with coped verges; ashlar stack. Aligned north east/south west with canted south west end. One storey; 1:1:1 bays to canted front, the central bay is gabled; central two-light window and single-light windows to left and right, all with square heads and styllized Gothic tracery; set-back projection to left has a door with semi-circular fanlight and panelled spandrels.

Greenhouse: semi-circular with domed top and ashlar plinth, central two-leaf door approached by two steps flanked by ball finials on short pedestals.

Listing NGR: SK0688144192

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26655558

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey