Description

TF 71 NW
6/27

GAYTON
ORCHARD ROAD
Orchard Farmhouse

II

House, former farmhouse, late C18 and C17. C18 range to road of chalk with gault brick dressings, flint base, hipped slate roof. 1 bay, 2 storeys. French window with flanking lights under wide skew back arch, flush sash with glazing bars above; left return to west with flush sashes with glazing bars to ground floor and to stair at first floor left, blank opening to first floor; right return with flush sash to ground floor, inserted sash first floor right. North face of brick dressed flint.
Low C17 range attached to rear: flint, some galletted with carstone, carstone, brick dressings, pantile roof, upper walls raised; chimney bay with cell to either side, additional cell to north; massive axial stack of gault brick below, red brick above. Facade to west: doorway to chimney bay with rustic gabled porch, boarded door; windows inserted c.1982, 3-light casements either side of doorway, 2-light casement to right, all under segmental heads, 4 casement dormers. Bay to north in flint with some dressed limestone quoins, low blocked opening; blocked attic opening to north return. East facade with doorways to left and casements to right of cells flanking chimney bay; 2 dormers of c.1982.
Interior: single rooms to ground and first floor of C18 part with reeded window frames and reeded surround to ceilings; duck's nest grates, that to first floor with silhouette of George III and one other. C17 range with large central stack of 5cm bricks, 2 fire places with canted interiors; ogee stopped tie beams, ceiling joists renewed.

Listing NGR: TF7269219384

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26345074

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House