Description

WOLSINGHAM WEAR BANK
NZ 03 NE
(West side, off)
Wolsingham
22/404 Ashes Farmhouse
31.1.67
GV II

Farmhouse. C17 with alterations and additions dated 1704 for RH on door lintel.
Sandstone rubble walls, the right part with clay core, with ashlar dressings;
roof of C20 tiles with rendered and yellow brick chimneys. 2 storeys; 3-bay
main block with lower 2-bay right kitchen wing. Renewed door at centre of
higher part; battened plank door at left of lower part, in stone surround with
Tudor-arched lintel and eroded chamfer. Flat stone lintels and projecting
stone sills to sashes with vertical glazing bars in higher part;`similar
treatment to renewed ground-floor cross window and first-floor sash in lower
part, with another first-floor sash without sill. Blocked windows of C17
proportions partly survive in outer bays of first floor in higher part.
Steeply-pitched roof has shaped left return gable with massive rendered external
chimney stack and brick chimneys. Right roof of lower pitch has tall tapered
square rendered stack with string near top. Rear elevation shows one-storey
2-bay outshut behind third bay of house and first bay of wing, with stone-
mullioned 2-light chamfered windows, the lower having vertical diagonal iron
bars.

Interior: long draw-bar slot in right door surround; 3-panel door at opposite
end of passage to outshut. Bolection-moulded stone chimney-piece in right room.
Room to left-of passage has chimney beam with unsophisticated classical
treatment of closely-spaced dentils supporting cornice over pulvinated frieze
on fluted pilasters; stop-chamfered beam; joists underdrawn. Left roof reported to have 2-stdne arch, of flat Tudor shape, beneath present wall covering.

Listing NGR: NZ0679936550

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26526805

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014