Description

ST 11 SW UFFCULME
5/134 Leigh Hill Farmhouse
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II
Detached house, formerly a farmhouse. C17. Roughcast cob and stone mix; gable end
roof. A 3-room through-passage plan house, the service end to the right of the
passage. It is a simple 3-cell structure, the service room divided from the
passage, and the inner room from the hall, by closed jointed cruck trusses.
Internal end stack heats service end, axial stack backing on to passage heats hall;
external end stack heats inner room. The latter is built of exceptionally large
bricks. Hall stack dated 'S.P.' 1765. Wider stairs in slight stair-bulge, to rear
of hall, and in a line with the hall stack. 2 storeys.
Exterior Front: 4 window range; first floor with 2-light casements window, 2 of
them of the 1980s. Ground floor: inner room with French window; C20 casement
windows to hall and service end. Glazed door to passage. Large buttress against
hall wall. Rear: 2 old 3-light casement windows, one to stair bulge. Otherwise
C19 and late C20 fenestration.
Interior: a good set of C17 fittings. Service end fireplace with massive chamfered
lintel, and above it a cross ceiling beam, chamfered with scroll stops that does not
extend the entire width of the house, suggesting that there may have been another
newel stair at this end. Boxed cross ceiling beam in addition. Hall fireplace
deep, but blocked. The stairs are intact; polygonal newel post, splat balusters,
with an extra rail to the landing where the upper rail is ramped. Door to the
stairs with fielded panels and HL hinges. Understairs cupboard, planked with H
hinges. Another understairs cupboard door accessible from passage, with HL hinges,
set into a contemporary length of screenwork. Hall cross ceiling-beam, chamfered
with step stops. Plank and muntin screen between hall and inner room, traditional
form but shallow chamfers to muntins and vestigial carpenter's mitres, and stopped
for bench (about 2½' above the floor level). Unchamfered to inner room side. Inner
room with chamfered and unstopped cross ceiling beam; fireplace rebuilt. 2 jointed
crucks, side pegged. Roof space inaccessible.

Listing NGR: ST1027510943

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26463384

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