Description

SS 74 NE
4/6

BRENDON
EASTER LANE
Fellingscott Farmhouse

II
Farmhouse. Early to mid C17 with C18 alterations and addition. Late C19 addition
and remodelling. Coursed rubblestone, rendered to rear. Red brick window dressings
to C19 range. 2-span slate roof, running front to back with gabled ends.
Plan and development: 2-room plan aligned approximately south-east/north-west with
former main front to north-east; left-hand room with former lateral stack to front
(now a rendered ridge stack) and right-hand room with truncated corner stack to
front. C18 1-room addition to rear of left-hand room. Range added to front (2-room
plan with central entrance hall) in late C19 (see straight joint to left-hand side)
when roof alignment probably also altered. 2 storeys.
Exterior: symmetrical north-east front of 3 bays with late C19 segmental-headed 4-
pane sashes and central glazed door with overlight and lean-to porch. 2 gables with
pierced barge boards. 3-window front to south-east, mainly C19 3- and 4-light
wooden casements with wooden lintels. Half-glazed door to right and partly-blocked
doorway to centre (now window), both with wooden lintels.
Interior: right-hand central ground-floor room has chamfered spine beam with scroll
stops. Left-hand central ground floor room with pair of chamfered spine beams and
blocked old fireplace. Old plank door between C17 rooms with wrought-iron strap
hinges and pegged frame with mason's mitred joints. C18 dog-leg staircase in C18
rear wing. Late C19 range to front with contemporary joinery etc. Roofspace not
inspected but that part over the left-hand C17 rooms looks rebuilt in C19.

Listing NGR: SS7770247524

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26507790

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)