Description

FOREST HILL WITH SHOTOVER MAIN STREET
SP50NE (South side)
Forest Hill
5/75 Redhill Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. Early C17 and C18. Roughcast timber framing and limestone rubble with
squared quoins; thatched and old plain-tile roofs with brick stacks. 2-unit
lobby-entry plan, now L-plan. 2 storeys. 2-window front to early timber-framed
range has a central door, flanking 3-light casements at ground and first floors,
and very small casements over the door and to extreme right. Hipped thatched
roof is swept up over first-floor windows and there is a central stack with side
strips. C18 rubble cross range, to left, projects to front and has an old plank
door beside a 3-light casement with a 2-light half dormer. Roof has a gable
stack and is half hipped at the rear. Rear of main range retains an early C17
four-light ovolo-moulded wood-mullion window set forward of the wall face over a
moulded sill. Interior: Remains of an open fireplace with cambered bressumer;
heavy chamfered beams; old plank doors with wooden latches.

Listing NGR: SP5806207405

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26476705

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)