Description

RICHARDS CASTLE

SO47SE BATCHCOTT
482-1/8/158 Batchcott Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. C17 and C18 with C19 alterations. Painted
timber-frame with painted and unpainted panels set on stone
plinth. Stone rubble cross wing. Plain-tile roofs. Projecting
stone ridge stack with brick shaft to main range now enclosed
in extension. Stepped stone eaves chimney to cross wing with
diminished brick shaft.
EXTERIOR: single storey and attic. 2-window range with
casement windows at ground floor and C19 half-dormers
penetrating the eaves above. 2 plain boarded doors in plain
door frames. Openings all with upper weathering-boards and set
in restored square framing 4 panels high with raised eaves.
Gable-end return to right masked by central chimney and
single-storey range with altered truss showing raised eaves to
front and back. To right are single-storey service bays with
plain door with top lights and side lights set in rectangular
thin-section timber-frame 2 panels high. To left is C18 cross
wing with gable end. Single window at first and ground floors
with segmental stone lintels and multi-pane casements. Rear:
bricked-up ground-floor door set in square framing 3 panels
deep and with unpainted brick infill panels. Single-storey
projecting tiled gabled extension. Cross wing gable-end to
right with single multi-pane casement with segmental stone
arch. Single-storey service bays to left.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO4919871071

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26663630

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Recommended Books

• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
• 
  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments