Description

EAST ALLINGTON EAST ALLINGTON
SX74NE Laburnum Farmhouse
4/63
II

Small farmhouse, formerly on the Fallapit estate. Circa mid to late C19.
Slate rubble with red brick dressings. Slate hipped roof with black ridge
tiles and deep eaves with exposed rafter ends. Side and rear lateral stacks
with rendered shafts with turned red clay pots, the rear lateral stack with
pair of diagonally set shafts.
Plan: L-shaped on plan. Two principal rooms in the front range with a
central entrance; the right hand room heated from a lateral stack at the
back and the left hand room has an end stack which might also serve the
2-storey wing behind the left room, unless it is an unheated room such as a
dairy. Later in the C19 a small single storey outbuilding was built at the
rear in the angle.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 2 window south front with brick cogged
string course at first floor level. C19 2-light casements with glazing bars
in brick dressed openings with slate sills, the ground floor with segmental
brick arches; the ground floor right hand window has been altered in C20.
Central doorway with glazed and panelled door and slate rubble gabled porch
with slate roof and chamfered 2-centred arch. At the rear 2-storey hipped
roof wing to right with doorway in end wall and small later brick single
storey extension on left side.
Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX7696648755

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26401828

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Recommended Books

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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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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)