Description

100/0/10021 ST MARY'S ROAD
17-NOV-03 Hayling Island
89 AND 91
Farm Cottage and Rook Farmhouse

II
House, divided into two dwellings. C18 reconstruction of an earlier house, possibly of Medieval origin; circa early-mid C19 alterations; C20 additions. Rendered brick incorporating some timber-framing internally. Concrete plain tile roof with gabled ends. Rendered brick axial and gable-end stacks.
PLAN: 3-room plan with integral outshut at the back; No.89 occupying left room with gable-end stack; No.91 occupying larger centre room with fireplace in axial stack and smaller right hand room with gable-end stack. The right hand bay and the rear wings are C20 additions.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window south east front with joint-lined render, C19 20-pane sashes and central panelled and glazed door within later timber and glazed porch; right hand 1-bay range is C20 addition. At rear the roof is carried down over outshut, now obscured by C20 additions.
INTERIOR: Left room [No.89] has two chamfered cross-beams with hollow-step stops and brick fireplace with oven with iron door; large storey-post in original rear wall. No.91, centre and right hand rooms now one room with partition removed; ceiled and with light scantling chamfered and bead-moulded cross-beams; large brick fireplace in axial stack with chamfered cambered bressumer, the chamfer running into rebuilt brick jambs; smaller right-hand room has brick fireplace with reused chamfered cambered timber bressumer; rear wall has exposed timber-framing; first floor has C18 2-panel doors and right hand chamber has moulded plank door with panelled overmantel to fireplace to left. C18 5-bay roof over No.91 and 3-bay roof over No.89, collar-and-tie-beams with clasped purlins, intermediate collars with birdsmouth joints, common-rafter couples intact and some reused smoke-blackened common-rafters over No.91.
A good example of an C18 remodelling of an earlier house.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26670046

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)