Description

TANWORTH-IN-ARDEN

SP17SW BROAD LANE, Wood End
652-1/2/218 (South side (off))
Beaumont Hill Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. Probably early C18 with earlier origins and later
additions and alterations; bell to turret inscribed 'JS 1715'.
Reddish brick in Flemish bond with ashlar dressings and gabled
plain-tile roof, timber cupola with lead roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellar; 3 first-floor windows; front
range is one room deep with rear corridor and ranges to rear.
Ashlar band.
Entrance to right: 8-panel, part-glazed door between 6-pane
side lights and with 16-pane overlight under flat arch with
raised keystone. To left of this a 2-storey canted bay with
6/6 between 2/2 sashes to each floor. Otherwise ground- and
first-floor windows are pairs of 4/4 sashes with horns, those
to ground floor are taller; second floor has 3 pairs of 2/4
sashes with horns; all under flat arches with keystones and
sills.
Dentil eaves cornice. Raised gables with copings and kneelers.
External end and ridge stacks.
INTERIOR: beams to rear range with roll-moulded chamfers,
those to front range at left have ogee stops. Cornices to
front rooms, 6-fielded-panel doors, some with HL-hinges. Room
to left at front has inglenook fireplace with bressumer beam
and cupboards to sides of stack. Attic stairs have stick
balusters.
First floor: fireplace with dentil cornice, some plank doors
with strap hinges.
Rear range has two 2-panel doors, cheese room with gypsum
plaster floor. Ventilation chutes to end walls.
Forms a group with Threshing Barn (qv).
(Victoria County History: Warwickshire: 165-175; Burman J: The
Story of Tanworth-in-Arden: Birmingham: 1930-: 125).

Listing NGR: SP1137471740

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662445

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Recommended Books

• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)