Description

SW 84 SW KEA PLAYING PLACE

2/179 Skewberries Farmhouse

II

Toll house, now farmhouse. Early C19. Painted killas rubble walls with stone-keyed
brick arches. Scantle slate roof, polygonal over canted front and with rendered
lateral brick chimney over side wall left (west) and brick chimney over rear gable
end. Cast iron ogee gutters to eaves.
Plan: 1-room wide and 2-rooms deep, of reception room with canted front with central
entrance and narrower service room behind. Single-storey gable ended later C19 wing
at right angles to right (east) of service room.
2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-window south front of canted bay with central doorway with
C20 door with blind fanlight over. Flanking 12-pane 2-light casements with original
intersecting glazing to arched tympana over. Similar window over doorway but with
simpler tracery to tympanum. Flanking windows are blind. All openings have shallow
2-centred arches.
Interior not inspected.
One of the few toll house in this area to escape either demolition for road widening
or drastic C20 enlargement and conversion.

Listing NGR: SW8100341432

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26434422

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)