Description

NZ 43 SW SEDGEFIELD COLE HILL

3/32 Cole Hill linked
farmbuildings

II

Planned farmstead. Late C19. Light-red engineering brick in Flemish bond;
timber framing; Welsh slate roofs. Linked rectangular-plan south group and
U-plan north group.

South group: 5 single-storey, parallel 6-bay ranges, running north-south, enclose
central covered stockyard with loose-boxes to west and stables and smithy to east.
5-gabled south front has openings, under brick segmental arches, with Dutch doors,
double doors and louvred ventilators. Range 3 has lunette, with stone sill, in
gable. Ranges 2 and 4 are taller and have horizontally-planked gables. Roofs
have overhanging verges and eaves. East return has similar openings between
brick piers and truncated chimney of former smithy to south. West wall similar.

North group: 4 parallel 2-storey ranges of varying length run east-west and are
attached to north wall of south group. 8-bay barn with lean-to range to south
and 3-bay timber-framed shed and 7-bay Dutch barn to north. Barn has 3 tall
timber-framed east bays with iron king posts and tie beams on vertical struts.
Western bays are alternating brick and timber-faced with similar openings to south
group; west bay has open cart shed; east gable has large, recessed, round-arched
wall panel infilled with Flemish-bond grid with headers omitted to provide
ventilation. 3-bay timber-framed shed attached to 3 east bays of barn. 7-bay
Dutch barn has similar framing and brick gables (east end is blind; west end has
ventilated grid). All gables are coped with shaped footstones.

This farmstead is one of a group built for the Sheraton estate and is unaltered
and well-preserved.

Listing NGR: NZ4258931851

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26414682

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Recommended Books

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)