Description

LEIGH C.P. SMALLS HILL ROAD TQ 24SW 9/150 Little Mynthurst 7/2/72 Farm House II

House, extended with converted barns. Late C16/Early C17 house with C20 alterations and infillings linking to barns. Timber framed,on brick plinth with colourwashed brick infilling, colourwashed brick to left of centre, colourwashed plaster infill to framed barn to left. Front range timber framed on brick plinth with weather- board cladding. C20 plain tiled roofs with old Horsham slabs to eaves and half- way up to right; Horsham slab roof with gablets at right angles to centre. The original farmhouse has been enlarged and joined to the former farm buildings on the west so the whole forms 3 sides of a courtyard, open on the south (to the right), the west wing being much shorter than the east wing which has the farm- house to its southern end. Two storeys, with C17 multiple stack on ridge to right under corbelled top, smaller, square, C20 stacks to left of centre. Three framed bays to right with two leaded first floor windows, one window to centre and one through-eaves dormer to left. Two windows to ground floor outer bays. Hipped break to left, (now to centre) with three first floor and two ground floor windows. Door to right of ground floor. Link range to left with one 4-light and one through-eaves dormer window on the first floor. Two windows on the ground floor. 5 bay barn to left at right angles forming northern range. Large leaded mullioned and transomed window in centre bay and further window to ground floor left. Ribbed door to right. Barn forming west wing, at right angles, not of special interest. Rear:- long elevation with roofs of varying heights. Irregular leaded casement fenestration. Arched bracing and jowled posts to cross roofed range.

Listing NGR: TQ2361244594

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Recommended Books

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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)