Description

RAYLEIGH GREAT WHEATLEY ROAD
TQ 79 SE
2/77 Great Wheatley
Farmhouse
GV II

House. C16 or earlier origin with C18 extensions and later alterations and
additions including C19 east wing. Timber framed and plastered. Hipped red
plain tiled well roof. Left and right gault brick chimney stacks. 2 storeys
and cellar. 3 window range of small paned vertically sliding sashes. 5 step
approach to central 2 panel 4 light door, fanlight over, fluted pilasters with
capitals and bases, patera, moulded flat canopy. Fine full width lead roofed
cast iron verandah with ornate cornice, 8 pierced supports, ornate rails.
Gabled C19 range to left. Interior features include, heavy chamfered bridging
joists flat section ceiling beams and side girts to original build. Cellar with
wine niches. C18 and C19 vertically boarded doors with ironmongery and C18 6
panelled doors, moulded surrounds, wainscots etc. Ground floor front windows
with panelled vertically sliding shutters, reveal shutters to other windows.
Dog leg stick staircase, mouldings to open string, wreathed ground floor newel.
Foliate cast iron fire surround and one other similar surround.

Listing NGR: TQ7963990383

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26406599

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
• 
  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
• 
  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)