Description

SS 43 NE GEORGEHAM HOLE LANE, South Hole

7/134 South Hole Farmhouse and attached
- outbuilding
25.2.65
GV II

Farmhouse and attached cider house, latter now outbuilding. C15/16. Cl7 and C19
alterations. Colourwashed rendered rubble and cob, unrendered to left end,
extension with slate roofs with gable ends. Scantle slates surviving to part of
cross-wing. Open-hall range and cross-wing plan, roof later raised and hall
floored. Hall range has lateral stack to rear and small brick stack at upper gable
end. 2 storeys. 4 window range of C19/early C20 centre-hinged 2-light casements,
4 panes each over tripartite sash in hall with margin glazing bars and sliding
sidelight sashes. C20 door inserted at upper end. Arched timber lintel to cross-
passage with C20 door.
Cross-wing front gable end has 2-light over 3-light casement 4 panes each light
with short flanking buttresses. Lateral stack to left side which is otherwise
blind and has 2-storeyed dairy extension projecting left at right angles with 2-
light C19 casement, 3 panes each light over 2-light dairy window. Cross-wing on
rear courtyard side has plank door and truncated lateral stack at upper end which
extends into cider-house. Originally this may have formed integral part of cross-
wing with blocked openings in end wall of present cross-wing but now has corrugated
asbestos roof, with renewed roof trusses. Large opening on courtyard side.
Cobbled floor with loft above.
Early features to dwelling concentrated in cross-wing though fireplace lintels and
ceiling beams may well be concealed in hall range. Cross-wing is of two rooms deep
with chamfered beams with central dividing passage containing staircase. Plank and
muntin screen to upper storey on lower side of dividing passage with 2 doorways
that situated away from the hall range has shouldered jambs. 4 raised cruck
trusses to cross-wing, but no access to roofspace at this end. Chamber to left of
staircase formerly had Cl7 plasterwork, only a fragment of the cornice surviving to
the 3 faces near the feet of the inner left side cruck blade. At head of staircase
at the juncture of hall range and cross-wing, one cruck blade, probably of a raised
cruck, survives of the open hall roof structure plastered into the dividing wall.

Listing NGR: SS4574838921

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26455804

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

• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings