Description

1.
5118 BITTON KEYNSHAM ROAD
(west side)
Londonderry Farmhouse
ST 6669 14/13 11.5.53 Farmhouse
II*
2.
Dated 1672. Built of rubble, front with pebbledash. C20 red-tile roof
and end gables with bargeboards, tall square ashlar stacks with moulded
caps. Two storeys and gable-lit attic. Six windows, glazing bar sashes
in bolection architraves, moulded cills, moulded cornices over, decorative
oblong panel over 3rd window from right with inscription "IRA 1672" (for
Richard Jones). Bolection architrave door opening in 3rd bay from right,
later wooden porch. Gabled pantiled wing to rear with ashlar stack set
diagonally; this wing continued to west as single storey unit. Rear has
a number of 2-light wooden casements under dripmoulds. Rear also has a
gabled stair turret and a gabled dormer.
Interior: south ground floor room retains original panelling with enriched
frieze containing initials "IRA", entered by strapwork doorcase. Good
dog-leg staircase with splat balusters and pillar-newels, pendants below.

Listing NGR: ST6637469878

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17556181

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Dorset (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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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)