Description

HATHERLEIGH
SS 50 SE
Little Park Farmhouse
7/18
-
- II
Farmhouse. C17 extended in C18 and C20. Plastered rubble and cob walls. Thatch
roof hipped to left end, gabled to right. One brick and one renderered rubble axial
stack and projecting plastered rubble stack at right gable end.
Plan: originally 3-room-and-through-passage plan, lower end probably to the left
but passage has now gone and internal room arrangement has been considerably
altered. Hall heated by axial stack and inner room by gable end stack. Possibly
integral stair projection at rear of hall. Probably extended at left-hand end in
C18 as separate cottage with fireplace.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Long asymmetrical 9 window front mainly of 2-light C20
casements. The right-hand part of the house is higher and its windows have top
opening lights on the 1st floor. Double C20 glazed doors at centre with large late
C20 single light window above. To its left on ground floor is C20 9-pane sash.
Left-hand end of house is late C20 rebuild in concrete blocks. At rear is
rectangular stair projection to left of centre.
Interior: open fireplaces with roughly chamfered wooden lintels. C17 roof trusses
survive consisting of substantial straight principals with trenched purlins and
collars halved on with notched joints.

Listing NGR: SS5666404717

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26458588

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  For the Record