Description

SD 4979 BEETHAM A6 (off West side)
Beetham

9/7 Parsonage Farmhouse
and attached stores
21.11.52 to North

G.V. II

Farmhouse. Probably late C17 with later additions and extensions. South part
appears to incorporate remains of medieval college demolished in 1756 (R.C.H.M.)
of which blocked doorway in South wall is visible. Slobbered rubble walls with
roughly-cut limestone quoins; graduated greenslate roof with stone ridge. 2
storeys plus attics. Main frontage in East gable: 4 windows, irregular, mostly
C19 cross windows with leaded glazing. Off-centre boarded door. Ground-floor
window to far right small-paned; attic window at top left trompe-l'oeil.
Blocked medieval doorway in South wall has 2-centred head. Massive chimney with
round shafts offset from ridge to South; single chimney in apex of East gable.
Interior has 2 staircases, one with turned balusters and square newels;
panelling to rear ground-floor drawing room; panelled partitions, one with
initials and date R & IA 1661; cornices to upper-floor rooms; powder room
backing onto landing. See also R.C.H.M. p.104, although part of the panelling
described therein has since been removed.

Listing NGR: SD4964179605

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26430717

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Recommended Books

• 
  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Devon (Pevsner 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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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)