Description

KEYNSHAM

ST6567 PARKHOUSE LANE
739-1/5/102 (North West side)
10/12/79 Parkhouse Farmhouse

II

Detached house, former farmhouse. Late C17 or early C18.
Squared coursed lias rubble front, rubble returns and back;
double-Roman roof tiles, pantile to outbuildings.
PLAN: lofty double-depth with symmetrical front and rear,
central hall and rear staircase; single storey gable porch,
and small outbuildings to rear of each gable end.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 5 window front, all 2-light wood mullion
and transom casements with leading, set flush, many of these
replacements, set to thin wood lintels. Continuous moulded
string course at first-floor level. Central gabled porch with
arched entry over C20 door. Between bays 1 and 2 a large added
raking buttress at lower level. Over ground-floor string
course in not continious. Four coped gables each with broad
rubble stack raised on continuous coping. The right return is
plain with one blocked opening at second-floor rear right, and
with small gabled outbuilding wit brick stack. Continious
string above first and second floors.
The left return has a lean-to extention with doorway, and in
the main wall 2 windows rear and 1 to the front; string
courses as at the opposite end.
The rear is regular, with 2 windows each side of 3-light stair
windows dropped to landing levels. The windows on ground
floor, to right, are set deep reveals. String courses stopped
to stair windows, thse with separate drips over.
INTERIOR: noted as having chamfered beams, original door
frames, doors and fireplaces, and in good open-well stair with
turned balusters and closed string.

Listing NGR: ST6452167079

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