Description

SU 85 SW CROOCKHAM VILLAGE REDFIELDS LANE
(West side), Church Crookham
1687/10/10031
The Old Horns
04.06.1999
II

House, once an alehouse, Early C18; with minor C19 and C20 additions. Painted brick. Clay plain tile roof with gabled ends. Brick gable end stacks with set-offs. PLAN: T -shaped on plan. 2-room plan front range with central entrance passage, both rooms heated from gable-end fireplaces, the right-hand room was the parlour, and the smaller left room was used as the alehouse bar. A large l-room plan wing at the back contains the kitchen with a gable-end fireplace and staircase, with outshut on its SW side, and an outshut on 1ts NE side integral with the front range. C19 single-storey outbuilding on the left [SW] end of front range, once used as cobbler's shop. EXTERIOR: 2'storeys. Symmetrical 2-window SE front with brick platband at first floor level, 3-light casements with glazing bars, ground floor with cambered arches; central doorway and C20 timber porch. Small single-storey outbuilding on left [SW] end. Gable-ended rear wing with outshut In angle on either side. C20 glazed conservatories at rear. INTERIOR: Small left hand room has chamfered axial beam with straight-cut stops, exposed unchamfered joists and large fireplace with moulded timber chimneypiece and jambs cut back and replaced by brick. Larger right hand room has chamfered axial beam with cyma stops, ceiled joists and C20 chimneypiece. Kitchen in rear wing has roughly chamfered axial beam, exposed unchamfered joists, large fireplace with chamfered timber bressumer and shelf, and moulded plank doors to integral outshut and to stairs.

Listing NGR: SU7956351973

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666825

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