Description

BLACK TORRINGTON WEST CHILLA
SS 40 SW

9/18 Home Farm
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GV II

Farmhouse. Early C17 possibly with earlier origins altered in C19 and C20.
Rendered cob and rubble walls. Gable-ended corrugated asbestos roof, corrugated
iron to attached barn. Brick stack at left gable-end, axial stone stack with
tapering cap, dripmoulds and dripcourse.
Plan: originally 3-room-and-through-passage plan with hall stack backing onto
passage and projecting hall bay. Lower room to right rebuilt as barn in C19
possibly along tne lines of what was previously there. There are 2 small rooms at
the higher end - one in front, one behind, - which are probably later subdivisions
of tne inner room. Early C20 lean-to added at rear of hall and passage. In circa
lid C20 the house was completely re-roofed and virtually reduced to 1 storey with
the top floor made' inaccessible.
Exterior: single storey. Asymmetrical 2-window front of C20 2- and 3-light
casements - the right-hand one in projecting hall bay. Roof drops considerably over
right-nand half incorporating barn and passage which has plank door. Barn has
doorway at its right end with adjoining window and 1st floor loading hatch.
Interior: hall fireplace opening is blocked. 2 chamfered ceiling beams with an
arrangement of less substantial beams forming a square in front of the fireplace
reputedly for hanging and smoking the bacon. Roof trusses replaced in C20 re-
roofing.

Listing NGR: SS4412702189

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26456172

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (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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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments