Description

WOOTTON WAWEN

SP16SE PENNYFORD LANE
1457-1/5/147 (South side)
02/08/72 Pennyford Hall Farmhouse
(Formerly Listed as:
Pennyford Hall)

II

Farmhouse and dairy. c1740 with upgrading and refronting of
c1780, and C19 additions to left with later alterations.
Coursed Kineton stone to front facade with reddish-brown brick
to returns and rear; plain-tile roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with cellar, 3 first-floor windows with
single-storey dairy to left. Central hallway plan. Quoins.
Central 4-panel door with overlight in tooled eared architrave
with ogee and fillet moulding and with central keystone
interrupted by hood.
Metal casement windows throughout, those to ground and first
floors of 6-panes and with eared architraves with keystones,
those to attic floor have multi-pane casements, some with lead
cames, in eared architraves. Sills throughout. First- and
second-floor bands.
Gabled roof hipped to right, raised brick gable and kneeler to
left, left end stack with band and cornice, right external
stack and rear stack. Rear has 5 casement windows all under
cambered arches. Brick bands continue around returns.
INTERIOR: ground floor has stone flag floors; gypsum plaster
floors to attic rooms and landing. Chamfered beams to most
rooms, some with stops. Mainly plank, 2- and 6-panel doors,
some fielded. Mainly C19 fireplaces, also dog-leg staircase
with stick balusters. Corner cupboard to first-floor left room
has shaped shelves and round-arched head, 4-panel doors. Dairy
retains meat-salting slabs.
The Wootton Wawen Report indicates that the mid C18 house was
of brick, of which 3 walls survive. The roof was probably
raised at the time of refronting.
(The Wootton Wawen Project: Bassett S: Interim Report:
University of Birmingham: 1983-1989: 17).

Listing NGR: SP1504761912

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662270

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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