Description

ATHERINGTON ATHERINGTON
SS 52 SE
5/13 Lemons Farmhouse
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25.2.65
GV II*

Farmhouse. Probably late C15, remodelled in late C16 and early C17 with C20
alterations. Stone rubble and rendered cob. Thatch roof gable end to left, half-
hipped to right. Tall lateral hall stack with drip and off-sets and tall axial
stone rubble stack (formerly gable end) with drip and tapered cap.
Former open hall house with low screen partitions to, originally, 3-room through-
passage plan, the upper inner room end later demolished. In late C16 remodelling
the rear through-passage doorway was also blocked by insertion of projecting stair
turret. Further stair turret to rear of hall. In C20 the barn or shippon
outbuilding attached to lower end was taken in to form part of dwelling.
2 storeys. 5 window range, that to left end and centre with eyebrow dormers
containing small gables. Timber ovolo mullion window of 3 lights, 2 panes per
light to right of stack, otherwise C20 fenestration. Ground floor has sash to left
end 8 over 3 panes and ovolo moulded surround to cross-passage doorway with
weathered stops. 2 light casement 3 panes per light to right. Thatched leanto
roof to porch to former outbuilding at lower end. Bay to lower end of main range
breaks forward slightly.
Interior: fine quality features survive throughout the main range.Hall has boxed in
bressumer of jettied downstand construction at lower end and ceiling beam and
bressumer at upper end with impressive scroll-stopped chamfers. Stair turret
doorway to rear of hall with ovolo moulded surround and bulbous stops to the durns.
Winder staircases to rear hall and cross-passage stair turrets. Fine plank and
muntin screens to both sides of cross-passage, that to hall side 7 planks wide with
chamfered muntins, stopped near the base and headrail chamfered to its lower arris
with coved cornice above which has been cut through to take the chamfered ceiling
joists with run out stops when floor was inserted. Segmental arched doorway,
partly cased in, towards centre. Screen to lower side 5½ planks wide with
chamfered headrail and carpenter marks. 2 impressive 4-centred arched doorways
with chamfered surrounds towards left end, that to right closed off with vertical
boarding, that to left with 4 plank door. Lower end has bench against rear of
screen with reused scratch moulded crested panelling and tall shaped bench end.
Ovolo moulded fireplace lintel. Scroll-stopped wide chamfered ceiling beam. Part
of screen survives to upper storey set slightly off the lower end screen below, 2
planks wide, stopped halfway up the chamfered muntins. At head of hall stair
turret is a jointed chamfered post to the right of doorway to chamber over hall
with chamfered surround, with part of the durn surviving to the left-hand doorway
which would have served the chamber over the demolished upper end. 2 raised cruck
trusses over lower end of hall and lower end with morticed and tenoned cranked
collars. Access to roof space below the lower truss only, the timbers heavily
smoke-blackened right to the former gable end, being further evidence with the
pronounced change in floor levels to confirm the phased insertion of floors to this
former open-hall house with low-screen partitions.

Listing NGR: SS5920923082

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17531789

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)