Description

CALLOW CP -
SO 43 SE
6/27 Callow House Farmhouse
(formerly listed as Callow
20.10.52 Farmhouse)
GV II
Farmhouse. Probably C17 with earlier origins and later alterations. Sand-
stone rubble and brick finished in paint and render. Welsh slate roof and
brick stacks. L-plan with four-bay arm extending roughly north-north-east
and three-bay arm west-north-west. North arm has cellar, one storey and attic;
west arm, three storeys and attic. West elevation has to left one mid-C20
glazing bar casement of three lights flanked by a pair of ledged mid-C20
doors. To the right the tall gable front has one 3-light casement to each
floor. The top one is probably C18 and wrought iron; the middle wooden and
mid-C19; the ground floor one has chamfered stone mullions. Interior has
high rooms to upper floors of west arm, the roof of which has plain collar
trusses. Its ground floor room has heavy chamfered ceiling beams forming
a large cross. The north arm has similar roof trusses enclosing a lower and
presumably earlier roof (RCHM Vol I, p 35).

Listing NGR: SO4951534336

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26391817

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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (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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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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